WRITTEN QUESTION No. 726/98 by Iñigo MÉNDEZ DE VIGO to the Commission. Access of Spanish Technical Engineers to Grade A/LA in the European civil service
C 354/16 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 19. 11. 98 Why, in the Spanish version of the notice of open competitions COM/A/720 and COM/A/721 (OJ C 52 A, 28. 2. 1991), did the Commission include the requirement that applicants be holders of a higher education qualification obtained after a five-year course, when that same requirement did not appear in any other language version of the said notice? (98/C 354/40) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0726/98 by Iñ igo Me·ndez de Vigo (PPE) to the Commission (18 March 1998) Subject: Access of Spanish Technical Engineers to Grade A/LA in the European civil service Why does the Commission assert that holders of the Ingeniero Te·cnico qualification are not eligible to study for doctorates, when some Member States allow them to do so? Is it true that the Commission has expressed its concern to the Spanish authorities that making holders of the Spanish Ingeniero Te·cnico qualification eligible for A/LA category posts will mean having to do the same for holders of qualifications obtained from three-year courses in other Member States? Does that justify rejecting applications from holders of the Spanish Ingeniero Te·cnico qualification? (98/C 354/41) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0727/98 by Iñ igo Me·ndez de Vigo (PPE) to the Commission (18 March 1998) Subject: Access of Spanish Technical Engineers to Grade A/LA in the European civil service Why are applications accepted from holders of the British Bachelor of Artsí, Bachelor of Scienceí and Bachelor of Engineeringí qualifications - all of which are obtained after three years - but not from holders of the Spanish Ingeniero Te·cnico qualification? Does the Commission take the view that the British Bachelor of Artsí, Bachelor of Scienceí and Bachelor of Engineeringí qualifications rank higher than that of the Spanish Ingeniero Te·cnico? If so, why? (98/C 354/42) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0728/98 by Iñ igo Me·ndez de Vigo (PPE) to the Commission (18 March 1998) Subject: Access of Spanish Technical Engineers to Grade A/LA in the European civil service What has led the Commission to require that Mr Vicente Alonso Morales, holder of the Spanish Ingeniero Te·cnico qualification and candidate for open competition COM/A/1047 (OJ C 145 A, 13. 5. 1997), should have successfully completed the equivalent of a full-length Spanish degree course, given that such a requirement does not appear in the text of the notice of competition? Joint answer to Written Questions E-0635/98, E-0636/98, E-0637/98, E-0638/98, E-0639/98, E-0640/98, E-0641/98, E-0642/98, E-0643/98, E-0644/98, E-0645/98, E-0669/98, E-0670/98, E-0671/98, E-0672/98, E-0673/98, E-0674/98, E-0675/98, E-0676/98, E-0677/98, E-0678/98, E-0679/98, E-0724/98, E-0725/98, E-0726/98, E-0727/98 and E-0728/98 given by Mr Liikanen on behalf of the Commission (21 April 1998) The Commission feels that most of the information requested by the Honourable Member is contained in its answers to written questions E-2749/97 by Ms Garcia Arias (1) and E-4186/97 by Ms Du¤hrkop Du¤hrkop (2). The Commission would accordingly refer the Honourable Member to these answers, where it gave a full statement of its general approach to qualifications giving access to A/LA posts in the European public service and more specifically to qualifications held by Spanish technical engineers