set aside the judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal of 24 April 2013 in Case F-56/11 Lebedef v Commission, in respect of an application for annulment of the decision in disciplinary proceedings of 6 July 2010 downgrading the appellant by two grades in the same function group;

Notes that more substantial Afghan involvement in the rebuilding process can be hampered by weak public administration and civil service capacity; is therefore convinced that more attention needs to be paid to these important areas; welcomes the idea that the Commission and the Member States should devise a special long-term flagship programme to address the issue of strengthening public administration by developing a curriculum, helping to build or use existing premises, linking up with the network of EU public administration insti ...[+++]tutes, as well as mentoring civil service institutes in a number of metropolitan cities in Afghanistan such as Kabul, Herat and Mazar i Sharif;

By this appeal, the Commission seeks the annulment of the judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (CST) of 13 November 2008 in Case F-90/07 Traore v Commission, in which the CST annulled the Commission's decision of 12 December 2006, rejecting Mr Traore's candidature for the post of head of operations of the Commission's delegation in Tanzania and the decision to appoint another candidate to that post, inasmuch as the level at which the post at issue was to be filled had been fixed at grades AD 9 to AD 14 (and not limited to one of the groups of two grades AD 9/AD 10, AD 11/AD 12 or AD 13/AD 14).

17. Calls on the Commission to engage in policy awareness-raising activities befitting a government by, for instance, publishing the annual plans for public works with Community financing in the media of the Member States concerned or by ensuring regular participation by Commission Members in regional press conferences and in national or regional public events held to promote European actions, while maintaining relations on the bes ...[+++]t possible terms with the national and regional authorities concerned, with the aim of providing citizens with a European point of reference through their presence;

17. Calls on the Commission to engage in policy awareness-raising activities befitting a government by, for instance, publishing the annual plans for public works with Community financing in the media of the Member States concerned or by ensuring regular participation by Commission Members in regional press conferences and in national or regional public events held to promote European actions, while maintaining relations on the bes ...[+++]t possible terms with the national and regional authorities concerned, with the aim of providing citizens with a European point of reference through their presence;

We believe that we will have the opportunity to express our opinions on them and that throughout this time we will be able to help the Commission in developing the Community civil service.