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into four categories :
Category A
: officials with university education, exer-
cising administrative duties.
Category B
: administrators, docunientalists, technical
assistants.
Category C
: secretaries, clerical officers, laboratory
attendants.
Category D
: filing clerks, drivers, messengers.
Linguistic card
: officials with specialised university
training, working as translators or interpreters.
Scientific and technical cadre
: officials of categories
A, B or C, generally exercising scientific and technical
functions.
Entry to all grades is by means of competitive
examinations. These are held at regular intervals and
consist of a submission of qualifications, written and
oral tests (including a test in one of the following
languages—French,
German,
Danish,
Italian
or
Dutch), and a medical examination.
Early in 1974 advertisements will be placed in the
Irish newspapers inviting applications for A, B, and C
categories. The practice followed is that after the
examinations a reserve list is established and appoint-
ments to vacancies are made from this list. Not all the
candidates placed on the reserve list will necessarily be
offered a post.
The Commission has the biggest translating and if
terpreting services in the world. Each year it recruif
many linguists as translators and interpreters. In th*/
area of recruitment there are two particular difficulties j
First, in requiring a linguist to have a
u n i v e r s i ty
education, the Commission is seeking above all
someon
f
with linguistic knowledge applied to the task of
translat-j
ing and the task of interpreting—jobs, which,
a l t h o u gh
apparently similar, are in fact two quite different diS'l
ciplines. Candidates for the competitive
e x a m i n a t i o n
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will, therefore, have graduated from a translator's of
interpreter's school or university level, and of thes
e
there are very few.
.:
The second problem in the recruitment of linguists isj
the kind of tests they must pass : these are exclusively
linguistic, except for an oral test of a candidate
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general knowledge. Knowledge of three Community
working languages (English, French, German, Italian)
Dutch or Danish) is required—one active language
this being the candidate's mother tongue, and tw"
passive languages. This requirement severely limits thty
scope for recruiting, especially where interpreters ar
e
concerned.
The Commission is, however, prepared to
p r o v i de
training for promising candidates who have not th
e
opportunity of obtaining a qualification at a translator
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or interpreter's school.
Irish Appointments to the Commission
The following appointments have been made to senior
posts in the Commission of the European Communities:
Director General, Directorate-General for Informa-
tion (DGX).
Sean G. Ronan
formerly Irish Ambassador in Bonn
and Assistant Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs.
Director, Directorate-General Internal Market (DG
XI) (right of establishment; freedom to supply services;
harmonisation of commercial and economic legislation).
Dermot Devine
formerly senior lecturer University of
Capetown.
Director, Directorate-General Competition (DG IV)
(general policy of competition).
Vincent Grogan,
S.C. formerly Director, Statute Law
Reform and Consolidation Office.
Director, Directorate-General Regional Policy (DG
XVI) (analyses, documentation and objectives).
Joseph Oslizlok
formerly Chief Economist, Central Bank
of Ireland.
Principal Adviser, Directorate-General Agriculture
(DG VI) (measures concerning the sociological struc-
ture of the agricultural population; land tenure).
John Scully
formerly Senior Inspector, Department of
Agriculture.
Director of the Dublin Office (DG X)
Denis Corboy
formerly Director of the Commission's
Information Centre and the Irish Council of the
European Movement.
Head of Division, Directorate-General Agriculture
(DG VI) (Milk products division)
Thomas O'Dwyer
formerly Head of marketing research,
Agricultural Institute.
Head of Division, Official Publications Office (Publi-
cations)
Fergus FitzGerald
formerly Chief editorial branch,
FAO, Rome.
Head of Division, Directorate-General Economic &
Financial Affairs (DG II) (methods of analysis and
economic trends).
Thomas F. Hoare
formerly Head of Division, Central
Bank of Ireland.
Head of Division, Directorate-General Industrial and
Technological Affairs (DG III) (small and medium
enterprises; crafts).
Peter J. Lennon
formerly Adviser with a firm 0»
Management Consultants.
Head of Division, Directorate-General Transport
(DG VII) (competition and special tariff arrange
ments).
Kevin Leydon
formerly Chief Economist, G.I.E.
Adviser, Directorate-General Competition (DG IV)
(cartels; abuse of dominant positions).
Conor Maguire, S.C.
formerly Judge of the Circuit
Court.
Head of Division, General Secretariat (general re-
port and other periodical reports).
Andrew Mulligan
formerly Journalist and BBC Pro-
ducer.
Head of Division, Administration of the Custom
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Union (customs value and charges having an effect
equivalent to customs duties).
Michael Mullins formerly Principal Officer, Office of
the Revenue Commissioners.
Head of Division, Directorate-General
Regional
Policy (DG XIV) (regional development).
Brendan McNama ra formerly Principal Officer, Depart-
ment of Finance.
Head of Division, Directorate-General Social Affairs
(DG V)
(European
social f u n d;
administration
finances).
Jeremiah P. Sheehan
formerly Chief Executive Officer,
Dublin Vocational Education Committee.
Adviser Legal Service.
John Temple Lang
Solicitor.
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