4. Regrets the deficiencies in staff selection procedures which put at risk the transparency of these procedures; acknowledges, in fact, that the Court of Auditors reported that with regard to the four staff selection procedures audited, no evidence existed that the weightings of the selection criteria and the thresholds that candidates had to meet in order to be invited to the written tests and interviews were established before the evaluation process began and no evidence existed that the questions for the written tests and interviews were defined prior to drawing up the s ...[+++]hortlist of candidates; calls therefore on the Authority to remedy the situation by improving its selection procedures;

4. Regrets the deficiencies in staff selection procedures which put at risk the transparency of these procedures; acknowledges, in fact, that the Court of Auditors reported that with regard to the four staff selection procedures audited, no evidence existed that the weightings of the selection criteria and the thresholds that candidates had to meet in order to be invited to the written tests and interviews were established before the evaluation process began and no evidence existed that the questions for the written tests and interviews were defined prior to drawing up the s ...[+++]hortlist of candidates; calls therefore on the Authority to remedy the situation by improving its selection procedures;

This programme, driven by the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO), has included the introduction of an annual cycle of competitions, to allow potential candidates to know when they can apply year to year, and a streamlined two stage process, which has cut the time of large selection procedures from 2 years to 10 months and smaller specialist selections from an average of 16 months to just 6 months.

6. Supports the ECA's view that, due to the absence of specific selection procedures for contract staff for auxiliary tasks (including, for example, the use of selection committees), "[...] the provisions applied at the ECJ do not ensure that in such cases the relevant requirements set out in the 'Conditions of employment of other servants of the European Communities' are fully complied with and any risk of appearance of non-objective selection is avoided "; requests therefore that appropriate selection procedures be put in place for this category of con ...[+++]tract staff as well;

Differences in national selection procedures could still create fragmentation of the internal market due to the divergent implementation of selection criteria, including the weighting of the criteria, or different timescales of the selection procedures.

For example, the Ontario environmental assessment law does not even apply to private sector projects. It only applies to the public sector.