European Union Civil Service Law

The aim of the conference is twofold: first, to inform participants about recent developments in the case law of the General Court and to look in more detail at specific issues regarding civil service litigation in the EU, including those which are currently on the agenda; and secondly, to provide scope for a debate and a critical assessment of this case law among the key actors concerned, namely judges, lawyers and staff of the institutions.

Since 2012, EIPA’s European Centre for Judges and Lawyers (ECJL) in Luxembourg has held annual conferences on the theme ‘European Union Civil Service Law’. These events have been a great success and attract the enthusiasm of many participants, including judges from the General Court, legal representatives of the European institutions, university professors and lawyers specialised in this field every year. In light of this, EIPA wishes to repeat the experience by organising the 15th Annual Conference. This will be an occasion to explore some of the recent developments in both substantive and procedural law.

The conference is geared towards civil servants and officials of the EU institutions, bodies and agencies who are responsible for legal aspects of human resources management; members of trade unions of the EU institutions; lawyers specialised in EU civil service litigation; national experts of civil service law; as well as officials of international, non-EU organisations who are responsible for staff matters.

The programme of this year’s conference will comment and discuss, inter alia, the following topics:

• Rights and obligations of civil servants and agents: update on recent case law;
• Overview of substantive and procedural EU civil service law developments;
• Recent case law on conflict of interests
• EU’s accession to the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combatting violence against women and its impact on civil service law and policies of the EU institutions
• Conflict of interests in EU Civil Service Law
• Whistleblower protection within the European Institutions

Leading experts in the field will analyse a series of contents proposed by the programme. Ample discussions sessions will feature in the programme. Moreover, meals, evening cocktail, etc. will be excellent opportunities for professional networking.