Considerations on COM(2022)565 - Amendment of Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1696, as regards using videoconference for interviewing candidates - Main contents
Please note
This page contains a limited version of this dossier in the EU Monitor.
| dossier | COM(2022)565 - Amendment of Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1696, as regards using videoconference for interviewing candidates. |
|---|---|
| document | COM(2022)565  |
| date | January 17, 2023 |
| (2) | Rule VI, points 1 and 2, of those operating rules provides that the hearing of candidates for the posts of European Chief Prosecutor and European Prosecutor (‘candidates’) is to take place in person. |
| (3) | In the wake of the recent epidemiological situation, which made it very difficult to conduct hearings in person, it is necessary to provide that the hearing of candidates by the selection panel could also take place via videoconference upon a reasoned decision of the selection panel, either on its own initiative or at the request of a candidate. |
| (4) | The way in which the hearings are conducted, in person or via videoconference, could affect the performance of candidates. The selection panel should ensure equal treatment of candidates. |
| (5) | Rule IV of the operating rules does not clarify whether the selection panel can deliberate via videoconference. It is therefore necessary to clarify that, when the hearing of candidates takes place via videoconference, the selection panel can deliberate via the same means. |
| (6) | Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1696 should therefore be amended accordingly, |