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Minister of Budget, Public Accounts and Public Service,
Vu la Act No. 83-634 of 13 July 1983 rights and obligations of civil servants, together with Act No. 84-16 of 11 January 1984 bringing statutory provisions relating to the public service of the State;
Vu le Decree No. 84-588 of 10 July 1984 modified for regional administrative institutes,
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The external entrance examination to the regional administrative institutes consists of two written examinations of eligibility and two oral examinations of admission.
The written tests are as follows:
1° A composition on a general topic on the place of the State and its role in the major areas of public intervention (society, economy, employment, health, culture, territories, external relations...) to assess the openness of candidates to the world, their ability to analyse and question and their ability to project themselves in their future professional environment (duration: four hours; coefficient 4);
2° A series of six to ten short answer questions, covering key elements of public law, European issues, human resources management, social issues, public finances and the economy.
Each question may be accompanied by one or more documents related to the question asked that do not exceed a page in total (duration: four hours); coefficient 4, of which coefficient 2 for public law, European issues and social issues, and coefficient 2 for public finances, human resources management and the economy).
The oral examinations are as follows:
1° An interview with the jury to assess the candidate's personal qualities, potential, behaviour in the face of a specific situation, if any in the form of a situational situation (duration: twenty-five minutes, of which ten minutes are no more presented by the candidate; coefficient 4).
The interview begins with a presentation by the candidate of his course and his motivation. For the maintenance test, the qualifying candidate addresses an individual fact sheet to the contest manager service on a date fixed by the service and before the intake test begins. The individual fact sheet is available on the Ministry of Public Service website at the following address: www.function-publique.gouv.fr.
2° A foreign living language test consisting of an interview from a short text written in one of the following languages: German, English, Spanish, Italian and Russian (duration: fifteen minutes, preceded by a preparation of fifteen minutes; coefficient 1), the candidate's choice being expressed at the time of the examination.
The internal competition for admission to regional administrative institutes includes a written eligibility test and an oral admission test.
The written proof of eligibility consists in the drafting, from an administrative record, of a note to verify the candidate's writing, analysis and synthesis qualities and his ability to identify appropriate solutions (duration: four hours; coefficient 4).
For this trial, the documentary file cannot exceed thirty pages.
The admission test consists of an interview with the jury to assess the candidate's personality, abilities and motivation and to recognize the achievements of his professional experience. To conduct this interview, which has as its starting point a candidate's presentation on his or her professional experience, for a period of not more than ten minutes, the jury has the candidate's file for recognition of the achievements of the professional experience. During this interview, the candidate is also questioned on questions relating to general administrative knowledge (duration: 25 minutes); coefficient 4).
For the oral admission test, the candidate shall prepare a record of recognition of the achievements of his or her professional experience with the entries listed in the appendix to this order that he or she shall give to the organizing service at a date fixed in the opening of the contest.
The record of recognition of the achievements of the professional experience as well as the filling guide are available on the website of the Minister for Public Service and on the websites of the regional administrative institutes mentioned in the annex to this Order. The file is forwarded to the jury by the competition manager after the establishment of the eligibility list.
The third entrance examination to the regional administrative institutes includes a written eligibility test and an oral admission test.
The written proof of eligibility consists of a summary note on file on a topic of general order relating to the place of the State and its role in the major areas of public intervention (society, economy, employment, health, culture, territories, external relations...) to assess the openness of candidates to the world, their ability to analyse and question and their ability to project in their future professional environment (duration: four hours coefficient 4).
For this trial, the documentary file cannot exceed thirty pages.
The admission test consists of an interview with the jury to assess the candidate's personality, abilities and motivation and to recognize the achievements of his professional experience. To conduct this interview, which has as its starting point a candidate's presentation on his or her professional experience, for a period of not more than ten minutes, the jury has the file constituted by the candidate for recognition of the achievements of the professional experience (duration: 25 minutes; coefficient 4).
For the oral admission test, the candidate shall prepare a record of recognition of the achievements of his or her professional experience with the entries listed in the appendix to this order that he or she shall give to the organizing service at a date fixed in the opening of the contest.
The record of recognition of the achievements of the professional experience as well as the filling guide are available on the website of the Minister for Public Service and on the websites of the regional administrative institutes mentioned in the annex to this Order. The file is forwarded to the jury by the competition manager after the establishment of the eligibility list.
Applicants to the internal contest and the third contest may, if requested at the time of registration, undergo an optional foreign language test consisting of an interview from a short text written in one of the following languages: German, English, Spanish, Italian and Russian (duration: fifteen minutes, preceded by a preparation of fifteen minutes; coefficient 1), the candidate's choice being expressed at the time of the examination.
The notes obtained at the optional foreign living language test of the internal competition and the third competition are taken into account only for their part exceeding the score of 10 of 20. The additional points obtained in the optional test are added to the total of the points obtained in the mandatory tests for the establishment of the admission list.
For each competition, following the eligibility test, each Eligibility Board sets out the list of candidates authorized to take part in the oral examinations, after equalization of the grades awarded to candidates for the different Eligibility Tests.
Under the same conditions, at the end of the oral examinations of admission, each jury of admission shall establish the list of admissions, after equalization of the notes attributed to the candidates for oral examinations.
No person may be declared eligible or admitted if he or she has not participated in all of the mandatory tests, or if he or she has obtained, at any of the qualifying tests or the foreign living language oral test of the external competition, a grade of 1 out of 20 and a grade of 5 out of 20 at the interview examination with the jury.
If several candidates have obtained the same number of points, they are departed as follows when the admission list is established:
1° For the external contest:
- priority is given to the one who has obtained the highest grade in the first mandatory written test;
– in the event of equality of points at the first written test, the priority is given to the candidate who obtained the best note at the oral interview with the jury.
2° For the internal competition and the third competition:
― priority is given to those who have obtained the highest grade in the oral maintenance and recognition test of the gains of professional experience.
The programme for the second written examination of the external examination is as follows:
I.- Public safety
1. Constitutional law
General notes on political institutions.
Current French political institutions; the Constitution of 4 October 1958, the organization of public authorities, the relationship between authorities, the constitutionality bloc, the control of constitutionality of laws.
2. Administrative and administrative law
A.-The administrative and territorial organisation of France:
1. Legal and territorial frameworks of the administrative organization:
― centralization, deconcentration and decentralization.
2. State administration:
― central administration, national jurisdiction, independent administrative authorities, decentralized services, disconcerned authorities (regional prefects, department, sub-prefects).
3. The decentralized organization of the Republic:
- the legal status of territorial authorities, communities with special or special status;
– the different territorial authorities: municipalities, departments and regions;
public institutions of intercommunal cooperation.
4. Special public persons:
public institutions, public interest groups.
B. ― The administrative and administrative courts:
1. The principle of separation of administrative and judicial authorities: definition, origins and foundations:
― the role of the conflict court in the functioning of French judicial dualism.
2. Organization of administrative jurisdiction:
- courts of common law: the Council of State, administrative courts of appeal, administrative tribunals;
- special administrative courts (financial courts and other specialized courts).
3. The administrative litigation:
- appeals before the administrative court: appeal for excess of power, litigation of full jurisdiction, new powers of the administrative judge;
the administrative litigation;
- remedies against decisions of administrative courts.
C. ∙ Administrative action and the principle of legality:
1. The sources of administrative law, the hierarchy of norms, the principle of legality and the control of legality.
2. The activities of the administration:
the administrative police: definition, administrative police authorities, police powers, police measures, distribution of police powers, judicial review of administrative police measures;
― public service activities: definition of the concept of public service, the typology of public services, the broad principles of public service, the modes of public service management.
3. The acts of the administration:
― unilateral administrative acts: regulatory authority, administrative act definition, development procedure (non-contentious administrative procedure: consultation, motivation, transparency), conditions of entry into force, repeal and withdrawal of administrative acts;
- the contracts of the administration;
- the criteria of distinction between administrative contracts and private contracts of the administration; the legal regime of administrative contracts;
public procurement and public service delegations.
4. The right of administrative responsibility:
the general principles of public responsibility;
– administrative responsibility for fault, the faultless responsibility of the administration;
– legal administrative liability regimes, the theory of cumulative responsibility.
II. – European issues
1. The main stages of European construction
2. Institutional aspects
The European Union; nature and components of the European Union.
The European communities; status and skills.
The principle of subsidiarity.
Institutions and financial and advisory bodies; role, organization and operation.
Decision-making processes.
3. Community law
The sources of community law; native community law, complementary community law, derived community law.
Different types of acts.
The principles of articulation between community law and domestic law; hierarchy of standards, principle of primacy, principle of direct applicability, direct effect.
Different types of appeals before community courts.
4. Common policies
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Regional policy: Structural funds and cohesion funds.
Common trade policy.
Economic and monetary policy.
Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
Social policy.
III. - Social issues
1. Demographic concepts
Population changes since the beginning of the twentieth century: birth, fertility, mortality, life expectancy, natural surplus.
Urban, rural population.
Migration movements (historical perspective and news).
Aging the population.
Structure of the labour force.
2. Social protection
The providence state: historical perspective and European comparison.
The French social security system: essential principles, organization, role of social partners, governance, "risks" covered, financing, spending and cost control, various reforms.
3. Social policies
The fight against poverty, social minima and social assistance.
Exclusion / insertion.
Housing policy.
Family policy.
The policy of insertion for persons with disabilities.
Dependence.
The candidate will integrate the economic and social effectiveness of these policies and the skills and role of local authorities.
4. The labour and employment market
The cost of work.
Anti-unemployment policies, public employment service, passive/active spending.
Vocational training throughout life.
5. Employee work
The individual working relationship: the contract of employment, recruitment, dismissal.
Collective relations: trade unions, staff representative institutions.
Conflicts and negotiation: the right to strike, collective bargaining.
IV. Public events
A. ― The overall approach to public finances:
(a) The main legal principles:
- hierarchy of legal norms and sources;
- budgetary principles: annuality, unity, speciality, universality, sincerity;
tax principles: legality of tax, equality and tax, the need for tax;
― general principles and specificities of public accounting (cash unit, separation of ordonors and accountants).
(b) Revenue concepts:
- categories of public revenues;
mandatory sampling;
– tax expenditures.
(c) Public debt:
– definition, structure, evolution;
management and funding.
(d) Processes and public finance actors:
- Financial administrations;
– managers, ordonors and accountants (functions and liability);
- organizations and systems of public finance controls.
(e) Public finances:
- economic impact of mandatory collection, expenditure and public debt;
– the consolidated approach to state finances, local finances and social finances;
― mastery of public spending;
- evaluation of public policies;
governance and transparency of public finances.
B. ― State finances:
(a) Financial laws:
― genesis, principles and architecture Organic Law of 1 August 2001 ;
- categories of financial laws;
the content and structure of financial laws;
- the preparation, examination and voting of draft financial laws;
Implementation and amendment of the financial laws.
(b) State resources:
- tax resources;
– Heritage and diverse resources;
– the management and financing of State debt.
(c) State spending:
– the budget nomenclature by destination and by nature;
- the supplementary budgets and special accounts;
- Scope of budgetary authorization: globalisation and "asymmetrical fungibility", commitment authorizations, payment credits, employment ceilings;
– justification of credits and expenditures on the first euro;
- presentation of program objectives and results (projects and annual performance reports).
(d) Operational budget management:
- programme managers, programme operational budgets and operational units;
– performance management: strategy, objectives, indicators;
- the deconcentrated management of credits;
– the process of execution of expenses.
V. Human resources management
1. General information
Human resources management history and objectives.
Strategic challenges in human resources management; efficiency, staff mobilization, adaptation to changes.
Human resources management indicators (social backgrounds, audits, projective information...).
Computerization inputs.
Management and the role of managers in human resources management.
2. Specificities of human resources management
Public administration
General principles of the general status of staff.
Forecast management of staffing, employment and skills.
Recruitment, mobility, training, evaluation.
Social dialogue and dialogue.
VI.-Economy
1. Economic Analysis Note
A. ― The mechanisms of the economy:
1. The actors of the national economy: households, non-financial companies, financial companies, public administrations.
2. Economic functions:
(a) Operations on goods and services: production, consumption, value added and GDP, investment and its determinants, gross fixed capital formation, foreign trade;
(b) Distribution operations: wages of employees, income, taxes, transfers.
B. ― Monetary mechanisms:
1. The functions of currency, monetary creation, control of monetary creation, monetary aggregates.
2. The foreign exchange market: the foreign exchange market, the nominal exchange rate, the real exchange rate, the parity of the purchasing power.
3. Monetary and financial markets.
2. Contemporary economic problems
A. ― Growth and innovation:
Growth: factors, decreasing yields.
Innovation.
The actors and the role of the state.
Sustainable growth.
B. ∙ Growth, technical progress, employment and unemployment:
Growth-productivity-employment relationship.
The working population; sectors; tertiairization.
The labour market.
Unemployment: definition, measure and types of unemployed.
C. ― Globalization:
International trade: comparative advantages of traditional analyses to the new theory of imperfect competition (scale economy and differentiation of products).
Free trade and protectionism: trade policy, unfair competition, firm strategy.
The actors: multinationals, states, regional groups and international institutions.
Financial globalization: international transactions, mobility of production factors and intergenerational economies.
The international financial system.
Role of new information and communication technologies (NTIC), institutional investors.
Financial crises and responses (preventive and curative policy).
Underdevelopment: causes analysis, development measurement tools, international development organizations.
3. Contemporary economic policies
A. ∙ Economic policy instruments:
Budgetary and fiscal policies.
Employment policy.
Competition policy.
Industrial policy.
Environmental policies.
B. ― The European Union:
The European construction of the ECSC in the euro zone; enlargements, the place of Europe in the world, the economic policy of Europe.
The provisions of this Order will come into force for access competitions to the regional administrative institutes organized from the 2008 session.
The October 26, 2005 Order setting out the nature, duration and program of the entrance examinations to the regional administration institutes is repealed.
The Director General of Administration and Public Service is responsible for the execution of this Order, which will be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
A N N E X E
RUBRIQUES DU DOSSIER DE RECONNAISSANCE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ACQUIS (RAEP)*
Access to Regional Institutes of Administration
(Intern and third competition)
Identification of the candidate
Registration file number:
Name:
First name:
Current status of candidate
Public officer or officer
Ministry/territorial/institution:
Directorate/Service:
Status:
Corps:
Level of belonging:
3rd contest
Activity
Salarié:
Other:
Job applicant:
Other situation:
Training courses
School:
Professional and/or technological and/or academic studies:
Other training courses:
Professional experience
Your previous activities as employee, non-employed, volunteer or employee (or assimilated):
Comments
Annexes
Summary table of documents
Acknowledgement.
Declaration on Honour.
Supervisor Visa.
Done in Paris, June 6, 2008.
For the Minister and by delegation:
Director General of Administration
and the Public Service,
P. Peny
