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4. Written Field Test This used to be called a case study. Based on the briefing materials you receive, you may need to create a specific legal note, filing, or analysis on a legal issue. Unlike other competitions or competitions for national administrations or university examinations, entrance exams, here in the EPSO universe, there is only one correct answer. They try to confuse you with external information, generalizations, possibilities in relation to facts, similar formulations, etc. This does not make it a very simple exercise, it may seem to be, but you have to be very careful to save time. He hopes his books will help readers follow his path and get the desired job in public administration. All of these items are legally classified, as institutions can hire you based on vacancies. The setting depends on whether or not there is an open position. The most likely employer is the European Commission, which currently employs around 33,000 people, some of whom are permanent employees, others temporary agents or contract agents, making it the employer with the largest number of employees. Therefore, it is very likely that it will work at the European Commission.

Also because, in reality, all the services of the European Commission need lawyers. They reformulate policy, they represent the institutions before the Court of Justice in negotiations with other institutions, so the EC is a huge mechanism that definitely needs lawyers. It is quite difficult. When you get to this stage of the competition, I advise you to take it really seriously because you are very close to success. Pay attention to the methodology, the actual content of EU legal knowledge and all that this entails so that you can finally be on the reserve list. Only those with the highest total scores will be placed on the list. That`s where the real competition comes back, you have to collect a lot of points. All other institutions are also heavily invested in policy-making, in legal and administrative matters, all of which require legal knowledge. You had the understanding of the language, then you have a MCQ (multiple choice questions) related to the field. In terms of field, your knowledge of EU law becomes important here. At this stage of the selection process, you need to be up to date on EU law issues.

In practice, one method of exam preparation is that you don`t need to start learning EU law now, it is obviously very beneficial if you are willing to do so and refresh your Craig & de Burca or any other textbook you want to use. You could look at the recent case law of the European Court of Justice and look at the foundations of EU legal principles and everything related to them. However, it`s not until this stage of the competition that you really have to be at the top of your game. El autor es funcionario de la Administración pública en España y ha desempeñado varios puestos de Jefe de Servicio desde 2009 hasta la actualidad, principalmente en las áreas de recursos humanos, finanzas, gestión de programas, jurídica y de administración general. También ha trabajado como experto nacional en la Comisión Europea en Bruselas. The author is a civil servant in the public administration in Spain and has held several Head of Unit positions from 2009 to the present, mainly in the areas of human resources, finance, programme management, law enforcement and general administration. He also worked as a national expert at the European Commission in Brussels. 1. Role play 1 & 2 It`s relatively new, and it was the group exercise. You will probably get a mandate or position that you need to represent. For example, you can get the role of a lawyer in the Secretary-General of the European Commission.

The other person may be given the role of lawyer in the Legal Service of the European Commission. Another role may be that of legal adviser to the European Parliament. These are the roles you need to discuss as a group or maybe even negotiate some legal issues on a particular topic. There are two during the assessment centre. Once you are on the reserve list, recruitment does take place and you may be wondering where you will end up working for the European Union. The most likely answer to this question is Brussels and Luxembourg. Basically, all the EU institutions are located there. The official seat of the European Parliament is in Strasbourg, but it is not represented there from an administrative and bureaucratic point of view. Essentially, a lawyer in Brussels and Luxembourg would work for one of the European institutions. How does previous experience in an area of law affect the chances of participating in this competition where no previous work experience is required? Experience in the legal field, again it is knowledge that counts.

During the exam itself, you do not need to provide proof of employment or proof of work experience, as it is not mandatory. However, if you know EU law because you have experience of it, it will naturally benefit you. Especially during role-playing games and different parts of the assessment center. And at the time of recruitment, it will be the same, for example, a future employer like DG Energy is looking for a lawyer at the European Commission because they have just entered trilogues, so they will look at the candidates on the reserve list and look for the person who has experience in EU energy law. Firstly, I hope that this will not lead to a complaint against this particular competition notice, as there have been precedents in Italy and Spain where their languages were not indicated as options, or in relation to the publication of the competition notice. This has led to legal problems. I hope that the absence of German as a language 2 will not lead to such legal problems. EPSO has very good lawyers who were probably hired as a result of previous selection procedures, so this issue is probably well documented and well founded. For example, if you ask a question about a completely outrageous case law or a legal issue and no other candidate is able to answer that question, then you are all in this together. But everyone has very different backgrounds, even if they have an EU law degree, so you never know who could do better or worse.

For me, this is not a 100% clear situation given the nature of your professional activity as a lawyer. Is it a lawyer before a court, a works council or some kind of public administration official? However, I assume that most applicants fall into the first category, where you have a law degree of at least four years, attested by a law degree. As a lawyer, you will take on a wide range of tasks in the formulation and research of legal policies, such as providing legal advice, ensuring the legality and editorial quality of legal acts, in-depth legal research and analysis as well as representing the institution concerned in legal proceedings before the European Court of Justice. I will now consider a few questions: is language comprehension related to legal vocabulary? I don`t think so. I don`t think they will ask what a “temporary intersection” is. 🙂 It`s a term I had to translate many years ago as an aspiring lawyer and linguist, and no one really knew what that term actually meant.