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Decree No. 2015 - 1490 16 November 2015 Laying Down The Conditions Of Access And Detailed Rules For The Organisation Of Competitions For The Recruitment Of The Territorial Directors

Original Language Title: Décret n° 2015-1490 du 16 novembre 2015 fixant les conditions d'accès et les modalités d'organisation des concours pour le recrutement des administrateurs territoriaux

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FUNCTION , TERRITORIAL PUBLIC FUNCTION, TERRITORIAL FUNCTIONAL , EMPLOYMENT FRAMEWORK , TERRITORIAL ADMINISTRATIVE , STATUS PARTICULAR , RECRUTEMENT , CONCOURS , CANDIDAT , EXTERNAL CONCOURS ,


JORF no.0267 of 18 November 2015
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Decree No. 2015-1490 of 16 November 2015 setting the conditions of access and the modalities for organizing competitions for the recruitment of territorial administrators

NOR: RDFB1521297D ELI: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2015/11/16/RDFB1521297D/jo/texte
Alias: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2015/11/16/2015-1490/jo/texte


Audiences concerned: candidates for external, internal and third competitions of territorial administrators.
Purpose: Change in the trials and programs of the external, internal and third access competitions to the employment framework of the territorial administrators as well as organizational arrangements.
Entry into force: provisions are applicable to competitions held starting in 2016.
Notice: The nature and program of the external, internal and third access competitions to the employment framework of territorial administrators are subject to a comprehensive redesign to adapt recruitment to the needs of local employers. Eligibility and admission tests and coefficients are modified. A collective work placement test is introduced at the admission stage.
References: the text can be found on the website Légifrance at the following address: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr.
The Prime Minister,
On the report of the Minister of Interior and the Minister of Decentralization and Public Service,
Vu la Act No. 84-53 of 26 January 1984 amended with statutory provisions relating to the territorial public service;
Vu le Decree No. 87-1097 of 30 December 1987 amended with a specific status of the employment framework of territorial administrators;
Vu le Decree No. 2013-593 of 5 July 2013 relating to general conditions of recruitment and advancement of rank and bearing various statutory provisions applicable to officials of the territorial public service;
Considering the opinion of the Superior Council of the Territorial Public Service dated 16 September 2015;
Considering the advice of the National Standards Assessment Board dated 13 October 2015,
Decrete:

  • Part I: GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1 Learn more about this article...


    Local administrators' access competitions include an external competition, an internal competition and a third competition.

    Article 2 Learn more about this article...


    The opening of the competitions is stopped by the president of the National Centre of the Territorial Civil Service.

  • Part II: NATURE AND CONTENTS
    • Chapter I: External competition Article 3 Learn more about this article...


      The external competitive examination for territorial administrators includes the following written examinations of eligibility and oral examinations:
      I. Eligibility tests:
      1° A composition on a subject of economy. A short file is available to candidates (duration: five hours); coefficient 3);
      2° A composition on a subject of public law. A short file is available to candidates (duration: five hours); coefficient 3);
      3° A summary note and proposals to verify the suitability of candidates for the analysis of a file that raises an organizational or management problem encountered by a local authority (duration: four hours); coefficient 5);
      4° A composition on a question of contemporary society, which would allow to appreciate the candidate's ability to express, on the proposed subject, both an analysis of facts and events and a personal and argued interpretation (duration: five hours); coefficient 3);
      5° A public finance trial consisting of the drafting of synthetic answers to short questions that can be accompanied by texts, graphics or statistical tables to explain and comment (duration: three hours); coefficient 2).
      II. - Intake test:
      1° An interview with the jury to assess the candidate's career and achievements, his analytical and synthesis capabilities, and his motivation and ability to carry out the assignments to the members of the employment framework (duration: thirty minutes, including an introductory statement of not more than ten minutes; coefficient 5);
      2° A test of collective professional status (duration of forty-five minutes, of which thirty minutes of collective status, then, individually, fifteen minutes of record and exchange with the jury; coefficient 2)
      3° An oral question bearing, at the time of registration, the candidate's choice, on one of the following two subjects: questions relating to the European Union or social questions (duration: 30 minutes with the same duration; coefficient 3). Candidates will have access in the preparation, depending on the subject matter chosen, to the treaties governing the European Union or to the codes of social action and families, and to work;
      4° Oral interrogation on the law and management of local communities (duration: 30 minutes with preparation of the same duration); coefficient 3);
      5° An oral test of a foreign living language with reading and translation, without a dictionary, of a text followed by a conversation, in one of the following foreign languages, to the choice of the candidate: German, English, Modern Arabic, Spanish or Italian (duration: thirty minutes with preparation of the same duration; coefficient 2).

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      The internal competitive examination for territorial administrators includes the following written examinations of eligibility and oral admission examinations:
      I. Eligibility tests:
      1° A summary note and proposals, based on a dossier, on a subject of economy (duration: four hours); coefficient 3);
      2° A summary note and proposals, based on a dossier, on a subject of public law (duration: four hours); coefficient 3);
      3° A written trial to enhance the professional experience consisting of the resolution of a case in a file that addresses an organizational or management problem encountered by a local authority or public institution (duration: four hours); coefficient 5);
      4° A composition on a question of contemporary society, which would allow to appreciate the candidate's ability to express, on the proposed subject, both an analysis of facts and events and a personal and argued interpretation (duration: five hours); coefficient 3);
      5° A public finance trial consisting of the drafting of synthetic answers to short questions that can be accompanied by texts, graphics or statistical tables to explain and comment (duration: three hours); coefficient 2).
      II. - Intake test:
      1° An interview with the jury, based on a dossier presenting the candidate's professional experience, allowing him to appreciate his career, his achievements, his analytical and synthesis capabilities, and his motivation and ability to carry out the missions to the members of the employment framework (duration: 30 minutes, including an opening statement of up to ten minutes; coefficient 5);
      2° A test of collective professional status (duration of forty-five minutes, of which thirty minutes of collective status, then, individually, fifteen minutes of record and exchange with the jury; coefficient 2);
      3° An oral question bearing, at the time of registration, the candidate's choice, on one of the following two subjects: questions relating to the European Union or social questions (duration: 30 minutes with the same duration; coefficient 3). Candidates will have access in the preparation, depending on the subject matter chosen, to the treaties governing the European Union or to the codes of social action and families, and to work;
      4° An oral question about the law and management of local communities (duration: 30 minutes with preparation of the same duration; coefficient 3). Candidates will have access to the preparation for general code of territorial authorities ;
      5° An optional oral test of a foreign living language with reading and translation, without a dictionary, of a text followed by a conversation, in one of the following foreign languages, to the choice of the candidate: German, English, Modern Arabic, Spanish or Italian (duration: 30 minutes with preparation of the same duration; coefficient 2). Only points above the average are considered for admission.

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      The third competitive examination for territorial administrators includes the following written examinations of eligibility and oral examinations:
      I. Eligibility tests:
      1° A summary note and proposals, based on a dossier, on a subject of economy (duration: four hours); coefficient 3);
      2° A summary note and proposals, based on a dossier, on a subject of public law (duration: four hours); coefficient 3);
      3° A summary note and proposals to verify the suitability of candidates for the analysis of a file that raises an organizational or management problem encountered by a local authority (duration: four hours); coefficient 5);
      4° A composition on a question of contemporary society, which would allow to appreciate the candidate's ability to express, on the proposed subject, both an analysis of facts and events and a personal and argued interpretation (duration: five hours); coefficient 3);
      5° A public finance trial consisting of the drafting of synthetic answers to short questions that can be accompanied by texts, graphics or statistical tables to explain and comment (duration: three hours); coefficient 2).
      II. - Intake test:
      1° An interview with the jury, based on a dossier presenting the candidate's professional experience, allowing him to appreciate his career, his achievements, his analytical and synthesis capabilities, and his motivation and ability to carry out the missions to the members of the employment framework (duration: 30 minutes, including an opening statement of up to ten minutes; coefficient 5);
      2° A test of collective professional status (duration of forty-five minutes, of which thirty minutes of collective status, then, individually, fifteen minutes of record and exchange with the jury; coefficient 2);
      3° An oral question which, at the time of registration of the candidate, addresses one of the following subjects: questions relating to the European Union, social issues or questions relating to the law and management of local communities (duration: 30 minutes with preparation of the same duration; coefficient 3). Candidates will have access in the preparation, depending on the subject matter chosen, to the treaties governing the European Union or to the codes of social action and families, and of work, or to the general code of territorial authorities ;
      4° An optional oral test of a foreign living language with reading and translation, without a dictionary, of a text followed by a conversation, in one of the following foreign languages, to the choice of the candidate: German, English, Modern Arabic, Spanish or Italian (duration: 30 minutes with preparation of the same duration; coefficient 2). Only points above the average are considered for admission.

    • Chapter IV: General provisions Article 6 Learn more about this article...


      The curricula of the materials of the tests provided for in articles 3 to 5 above shall, as appropriate, be set out in the annex to this decree.

  • Part III: MODALITIES OF CONCOURS Article 7 Learn more about this article...


    Each contest session is advertised in the Official Journal of the French Republic, which specifies the closing date of the registrations, the date and place of the examinations, the number of open positions scheduled for each contest and the address to which applications must be filed. The President of the National Territorial Civil Service Centre ensures this publicity by order.
    Contest opening orders are also published electronically on the website of the National Centre for the Territorial Civil Service.

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    Members of the jury are appointed by order of the President of the National Centre for the Territorial Civil Service. The jury of each contest includes at least nine members as distributed:


    - three territorial officials of the employment framework of territorial administrators or an equivalent employment framework, at least two of which fall within the employment framework of territorial administrators;
    - three qualified personalities;
    - three local elected officials.


    Members of the jury are selected from a list established each year or updated as required by the National Territorial Civil Service Centre. Representatives of the category corresponding to the employment framework for which the contest is organized are selected on a list prepared by the board of directors of the National Centre of the Territorial Public Service, after advice from the guidance board.
    When a jury includes a number of members above nine, the proportion of officials under the Professional Employment Framework must be greater than or equal to half of the members in the College.
    The order set out in the first paragraph of this article shall designate, among the members of each jury, a president and the replacement of the latter for the event that it is impossible to continue his mission. In the event of the equal sharing of votes, the president of the jury has a dominant voice.
    The president and two members of each of these jury members are in common with the external competition jury, the internal competition and the third competition.
    In order to correct the eligibility and admission tests, the jury may, in particular in view of the number of candidates, form groups of examiners, under the conditions established by theArticle 44 of the Act of 26 January 1984 referred to above.
    Correctors may be appointed by order of the President of the National Centre of the Territorial Civil Service to participate, under the authority of the jury, in the correction of the trials.

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    Written tests are anonymous and are subject to a double correction.
    A rating of 0 to 20 is assigned to each test. Each note is multiplied by the corresponding coefficient.
    Any rating less than 5 out of 20 at any of the eligibility or admission examinations results in the removal of the candidate from the eligibility or admission list.
    A candidate may not be admitted if the average of his or her notes to the tests is less than 10 out of 20 after applying the corresponding coefficients.

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    For each of the contests, the jury determines the list of candidates admitted to the admission examinations, based on the total points they obtained from all the eligibility tests.
    Correctors participate in the jury's deliberations, with an advisory voice, for the award of the notes related to the tests they have assessed or corrected.
    At the end of the admission examinations, the jury shall, within the limits of the competitions, establish an admission list for each competition.
    For each of the contests, the President of the jury forwards the list mentioned above with a summary of all the operations to the President of the National Territorial Civil Service Centre.

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    In view of the admission lists and the monitoring of schooling, the president of the National Centre for the Territorial Civil Service alphabetically sets out the aptitude list.

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    Amended Decree No. 88-236 of 14 March 1988 establishing the conditions of access and the procedure for organizing competitions for the recruitment of territorial administrators is repealed.

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    The provisions of this Order come into force from the date of publication of the Order authorizing the opening of the external competition, the internal competition and the third competition held under the year 2016.

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    The Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Decentralization and Public Service are responsible, each with respect to him, for the execution of this Order, which will be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.

  • Annex


    Annex
    PROGRAMME OF EXTERNAL, INLAND AND THIRD CONCOURS
    External Competition
    Eligibility


    First Eligibility Test: Economy
    This event involves both a strong knowledge of the economy program and a good mastery of the composition technique. It is based on both the applicant's economic expertise and its ability to address key issues related to the subject.
    In particular, this test should allow the candidate to assess the candidate's ability to express on the proposed subject both an analysis and a personal and argued interpretation. It must also allow it to propose possible solutions. An apprehension of the connection of the subject with the local public action will be expected.
    A short file is given to the candidate in order to nourish his reflection. Its exploitation must not lead the candidate to draw up a synthesis but to extract the elements useful to the construction of its economic reasoning.
    The economic test program is set as follows:
    1. Fundamental economic principles:
    a. The foundations: rarity, incentives, efficiency, balance;
    b. Individual behaviours: consumption, savings, investment;
    c. Markets: the basic model, failures and impact of new technologies.
    2. International growth, employment and trade:
    a. Growth and crises: the determinants, the sustainability of growth, cycles and crises;
    b. The labour market and unemployment: the determination of wages, economic and social institutions and the obstacles to full employment;
    c. Capital formation and productivity;
    d. New sources of growth: innovation, entrepreneurship, green growth;
    e. Trade, new economic dynamics and international imbalances.
    3. Currency and the financing of the economy:
    a. The allocation of savings to productive use: the banking system, monetary creation, shares, bonds and financing of the economy;
    b. The role of central banks: liquidity, interest rates, inflation, deflation and international coordination;
    c. Financial crises: origins, interconnections and reactions.
    4. National and European public policies:
    a. Budgetary, fiscal and income redistribution policies;
    b. The policy of supply: competition and industrial policy;
    c. Employment policy;
    d. The EU policy for growth and competitiveness.
    5. The Territories and local economic development:
    a. The choice of location of men and activities in space;
    b. The development of coherent and shared local economic strategies: assertion of channels, access to the public order of local companies, development of very broadband...;
    c. The financial tools of local economic development: economic aids, support for support structures, local public enterprises, development of social and solidarity economy, promotion of territorial tools, support of companies abroad...;
    d. Local policies for employment: development of the skills of people, economic and social integration of young people and populations in difficulty;
    e. Local public investment;
    f. Local tax policies.
    Second Eligibility Test: Public Law
    This test involves both a strong knowledge of the public law program and a good mastery of the composition technique. It is based on both the applicant's legal expertise and its ability to address key issues related to the subject.
    In particular, this test should allow the candidate to assess the candidate's ability to express on the proposed subject both an analysis and a personal and argued interpretation. It must also allow it to propose possible solutions. An apprehension of the connection of the subject with the local public action will be expected.
    A short file is given to the candidate in order to nourish his reflection. Its exploitation must not lead the candidate to prepare a synthesis but to extract the elements useful to the construction of his legal reasoning.
    The public law trial program is set as follows:
    1. General Theory of Public Law:
    a. The different sources of public law and the hierarchy of standards;
    b. Public persons;
    c. The French and European legal organization;
    d. The emergence of new principles of law;
    e. Fundamental rights and public freedoms;
    f. The European Convention on Human Rights;
    g. The European legal system: sources of community law, community law and national law (direct effect, primacy), application of community law by national courts.
    2. Constitutional law and political institutions:
    a. Comparative constitutional theory: sovereignty and its modes of expression, electoral regimes;
    b. The control of constitutionality;
    c. The political regime derived from the Constitution of 4 October 1958 and the current political institutions of France;
    d. Brief and updated information on community institutions and those of major European States.
    3. Administrative Organization:
    a. Organization of State and decentralization: history, foundations and evolutions;
    b. Organization of territorial authorities and their public institutions;
    c. Control over territorial authorities.
    4. Administrative action:
    a. The rule of law and the principle of legality;
    b. The regulatory authority;
    c. Independent administrative authorities;
    d. The acts of administration: unilateral acts, administrative contracts;
    e. The administrative police;
    f. Relations of administration and users;
    g. Public services and their management modes;
    h. The contractualization of public policies;
    i. Forms of responsibilities in the administration;
    j. Controls and evaluation of administrative action;
    k. The association of citizens to the decision.
    5. Public dominance and its management tools.
    6. The public order:
    Different types of markets and contracts.
    7. Urban Space Management Policy:
    a. Urban planning rules;
    b. Modes of intervention of public authorities and their operators in the field of land and urban planning;
    c. Urbanism and sustainable development.
    8. The Territorial Public Service:
    a. General principles of public service status;
    b. Rights and obligations of public officials;
    c. Procedures for the participation and consultation of officers;
    d. Territorial civil service features: recruitment, promotion, training, organs and management.
    9. Europe and local authorities:
    a. Impact of European standards on local public action;
    b. The various forms and tools of partnership.
    Third Eligibility Test: Organization and Management of Territorial Communities
    The test aims to assess the candidate's ability to identify, analyze and define the problems posed in the file and to indicate the solutions that the law, the operating conditions of the local authorities and the logics specific to local public policies allow them to provide. The purpose of the summary note is to quickly select the essential information contained in the file from an information or decision-making perspective and their structured, clear, neutral and rigorous reformulation.
    The trial program on a problem of organisation and management of local authorities is as follows:
    1. The organization and competence of local authorities and their public institutions and the issues of decentralization:
    a. History and issues of decentralization;
    b. Organization, skills and missions of local authorities and their groups;
    c. Local elected officials: conditions of access and exercise of mandates;
    d. Local executives and governance of local authorities; the mayor, state agent:
    e. The legislative bodies of local authorities: election, organization and division of competence;
    f. Relations between and territorial authorities and the State: contractualisations and controls;
    g. Relationships between communities: different modes of cooperation between communities, mutualization...;
    h. Intercommunity and territorial management;
    i. Decision-making processes: modalities for the association of citizens and the exercise of local democracy;
    j. Community communication.
    2. The management and funding of local public action and their issues:
    (a) Local budgets:
    General principles;
    Preparation, vote, execution;
    Note on the overall accounting plan and the budgetary and accounting instructions applicable to local authorities;
    Public accountants.
    (b) Local resources:
    Tax revenues;
    Endowments and grants;
    The loans;
    State resources;
    The pricing of local services.
    (c) Local expenditures:
    Mandatory expenses and optional expenses.
    (d) Cash from local authorities; debt management.
    (e) Skills transfers and their financial compensation.
    (f) Forecast, financial assessment and controls:
    The budget foresight;
    Management control;
    The role of the regional chambers of accounts.
    3. Human resources management:
    a. The legal foundations of human resources management: civil service status, organization, recruitment, career, social protection;
    b. Human resources management: skills, remuneration, forecast management, training;
    c. Risk and occupational health management;
    d. Social dialogue and internal communication.
    4. Local public service management and public order:
    a. Direct management and delegated management (regia, public service delegation, public-private partnership contract...);
    b. The general principles of public order: legal and economic aspects;
    c. Public markets.
    5. Local public policies:
    (a) Development of local public policies and local democracy:
    The issues and elements of sociology of the territories: social demand, urban facts, cohesion of the territories;
    Needs analysis, political choices;
    Association of citizens in the development of local public policies;
    (b) The content of local public policies:
    Development and sustainable development of territories;
    Urban technical services and public infrastructure;
    Solidarity, social cohesion and public health;
    Educational, cultural and sporting policies;
    Prevention and security;
    (c) The articulation of public policies:
    The articulation of national and local public policies: plan contracts, partnerships;
    The articulation of local public policies: leaders, schematics, planning documents, co-financing.
    (d) Evaluation of public policies:
    6. The European and international dimension of local public action:
    a. European legislation and standards;
    b. European funding and structural funds;
    c. Decentralised cooperation.
    Fourth Eligibility Test: Question of Contemporary Society
    This composition test is intended to verify the candidate's understanding of his social and contemporary environment.
    His knowledge and analysis of this society depends, in fact, much of his ability to "help the decision" as a future management framework. The candidate must demonstrate critical capabilities and formulate a specific point of view.
    The perimeter of the question asked to candidates is limited to contemporary societal questions.
    This test does not include a program.
    Fifth Eligibility Test: Public Finance
    The purpose of this test is to assess the candidate's knowledge in the field of public finances through three to five questions that can be accompanied by one or more texts, graphics or statistical tables to explain and comment. A short file is submitted to the candidate for all questions.
    The program of the public finance test is as follows:
    1. General framework of public finances:
    (a) The main concepts of public finances:
    Taxation and mandatory levies: definition and general structure; elements of doctrine and functioning of the tax system, role of tax administration, typology of different national and local taxes; tax pressure; mandatory levies and economic activity;
    Public spending (state, local authorities, social security): structure; evolution, classification; public spending and economic activity; control of public spending;
    Public deficit and public debt: definitions and structures; evolution; economic and financial aspects; issues of public accountability.
    (b) The main principles of financial public law: definitions and issues:
    The budgetary principles and their evolution;
    Accounting principles and their evolution;
    Tax principles and their evolution.
    (c) The main actors:
    General Directorate of Public Finance (DGFIP); Parliament; the ECB; the Bank of France; Agence France Trésor; banking institutions; the Court of Auditors and the Regional and Territorial Chambers of Accounts.
    (d) The community framework:
    European budget, multi-year programming: institutional actors, resource content and expenditures, development and enforcement procedures;
    National financial frameworks;
    Influence of community rules on the financial framework of the State;
    Local finance and Europe.
    2. State finances:
    a. Financial laws: definition; structure; preparation; adoption; execution; controls; the contribution of the LOLF in terms of budgetary democracy;
    b. The evolution of the role of the Court of Auditors;
    c. Certification of accounts;
    d. State resources and expenses; the question of the balance of the budget, the management of the debt and cash of the State;
    e. Taking into account community imperatives and their impacts on budget development and execution;
    f. Modernization of public management: contributions from LOLF and balance sheet.
    3. Local finances:
    a. Opportunity: increasing weight of local finances in the national economy, development of financial autonomy, European comparisons;
    b. The budgetary and accounting framework: structuring and content of the local budget, budgetary and accounting principles, preparation, vote, execution and controls of local budgets;
    c. Local government resources: financial autonomy: principles and reality;
    d. Local taxation: developments and modernization issues;
    e. Endowments and grants: financial relations between the state and local authorities and their evolution;
    f. Equalization mechanisms;
    g. Revenues from heritage and domain and their optimization issues;
    h. Borrowing: local public debt, active management, recent banking and alternative financing, financial notation, cash management;
    i. Expenditures of local authorities: classification, social spending of local communities, the weight of standards, control of local spending, local public investment;
    j. Local finance and controls: legality control and budgetary control, organization and role of the regional and territorial boards of accounts.


    Admission


    First admission test: Maintenance
    This trial must allow the jury to question the candidate on his motivations and abilities to perform the duties envisaged by the job framework of the territorial administrators. It must also lead to the evaluation of its knowledge, adaptability and analytical qualities and proposals. The objective for the candidate is to demonstrate his knowledge of the public sector and his ability to work within the territorial communities.
    This test does not include a program.
    Second admission test: Test for collective occupational status
    The collective work placement test aims to apprehend and verify the candidate's abilities in relation to others, at the time he is about to enter a school of application intended for executive functions.
    It is a question of appreciating his understanding of the issues of the subject and the situation. It will also be assessed its ability to argue, responsiveness and ability to listen to and implement cooperation relationships, as well as its ability to analyze and distancing.
    At least three candidates are nominated for each position. At the beginning of each situation, a random draw will determine the function of each candidate. The functions are performed by active territorial administrators.
    The occupational situations proposed to candidates will present local issues of an operational nature that lead to preconizations.
    Each collective situation starts with the jury reading the subject to the candidates, followed immediately by the exchanges between the candidates. The subject gives elements of a concrete situation and a specific directive that put them in a position to make a decision or to choose a direction.
    Before the end of the thirty minutes, candidates must develop a shared decision or direction.
    Each candidate is questioned by the jury on his analysis of the exchanges he participated for fifteen minutes following the interview test (first admission test).
    This test does not include a program.
    Third admission test: Oral testing, at the time of registration, on questions relating to the European Union or social issues
    The purpose of this test is to verify the candidate's understanding of European Union issues or social issues in connection with local public action.
    Questions relating to the European Union:
    The European Union question test programme is as follows:
    1. The origins and objectives of the European construction
    a. Values, purposes, successive treaties establishing the European Union (EU) ;
    b. The issues and methods of European integration;
    c. The successive enlargements, the identity of the EU.
    2. The functioning of the EU: political life and decision-making
    a. The division of competence between EU and Member States, the principles of attribution, direct applicability, proportionality, subsidiarity, preemption;
    b. European institutions and advisory bodies, economic and social partners, interest groups, national parliaments;
    c. Legislative decision-making, competence, hierarchy of normative acts, enforcement measures;
    d. The European budget, budgetary and financial instruments.
    3. The legal system
    a. The characteristics of the legal system, the EU Court of Justice, the introduction of community law into domestic law, the relationship between legal orders;
    b. Jurisdictional remedies, evolution of jurisprudence, general principles of law.
    4. EU policies:
    a. The evolution of major European policies;
    b. Democracy and European citizenship;
    c. The domestic market, the free movement of goods, people, services and capital. Competition policy, exemption regulations, common trade policy;
    d. The Schengen space. Cooperation in the areas of freedom, security, justice and internal affairs;
    e. Monetary and fiscal policy, the euro area and the ECB;
    f. Common agricultural policy; the policy of regional development;
    g. Skills policies shared with States (cohesion, environment, research, higher education, culture...)
    h. Common foreign and security policy, common defence, crisis management, solidarity and development assistance, association contracts with third States, restrictive measures;
    i. EU relations with other international organizations (WTO, Council of Europe).
    5. Europe and local authorities:
    a. The European Regional Land Development Policy (development, environment, transport). Issues and impacts for communities;
    b. The European territorial development scheme, the European transport scheme;
    c. The management of European funds and the role of communities;
    d. Cooperation between territories, the local cross-border cooperation group.
    Social issues:
    The programme of the social question test is as follows:
    1. General data:
    a. Demographics and social groups: evolution of the total population and the working population by major categories;
    b. The main social institutions and employment: division of skills, coordination of actors and related issues;
    c. The principles of social policies in France: solidarity, redistribution, reduction of inequalities, evaluation of social and medico-social structures;
    d. Social work: trades, crisis and values, organization of social services and related issues.
    2. The policy of employment, insertion and vocational training:
    a. Work and its evolutions, main characteristics and developments in the labour market, precarious work and internal and external flexibility, new forms of employment;
    b. Individual relations at work: the employment contract (typology, modification, rupture): remuneration; the working time;
    c. Working conditions and occupational health: disability, occupational accidents and occupational diseases;
    d. Collective relations at work: the freedoms and rights of employees in the company, the citizenship of the employee; the organization of the world of work: trade unions, staff representative bodies, collective bargaining, collective conflicts and their means of settlement;
    e. The situation of employment and anti-unemployment policies: compensation for unemployment, help in job creation, cost reduction policies;
    f. Initial and continuing vocational training;
    g. General data on European employment and integration policies.
    3. The French system of social protection: principles, historical developments, organization of actors:
    a. The general system of employees. General concepts of special and autonomous schemes, supplementary social protection, supplementary pension schemes;
    b. The financing of social protection;
    c. Leading social finances: financing laws and social security accounts.
    4. Social protection and solidarity policies:
    a. Family policy: Early childhood: receptions and modes of custody, maternal and child protection, parental support policy; social benefits for children and families; child prevention and protection policy: associated mechanisms and actors;
    b. Health policies: the provision of care and associated actors; public health policies and health security;
    c. Policies for older persons: social arrangements and benefits; allocation of skills and related issues; financing policies for older persons;
    d. Policies for persons with disabilities: social arrangements and benefits; allocation of skills and related issues; financing policies for persons with disabilities;
    e. Social cohesion policies: the fight against poverty and exclusion, social and minimal social assistance, social housing and emergency accommodation, integration policy, the fight against discrimination, the fight against violence against women, the politics of the city;
    f. The policy to protect vulnerable adults:
    g. Social work.
    5. European and international issues:
    a. general data on international social law and community social law;
    b. Social Europe and its impact on French social policies;
    c. immigration policies in the main countries of the European Union.
    Fourth Admission Test: Local Government Law and Management
    The purpose of this test is to verify the knowledge of the candidate of the law and the rules of management of local communities.
    The program is identical to that of the third external competition eligibility test.
    Fifth admission test: Foreign language
    The candidate will be assessed on his ability to read, understand and translate a text into the foreign language chosen for registration, express himself and hold a conversation in the chosen language and demonstrate his knowledge and/or affinity with the language and culture(s) associated with him. The expected level is usually that of a higher level of language education.
    This test does not include a program.


    INTERNAL CONCOURS
    Eligibility


    First Eligibility Test: Economy
    The candidate is expected to write a summary note and proposals on an economic record. The candidate must be able to operate in particular relations between economic concepts and the economic action of local communities. He is asked to make proposals to demonstrate his capacity to help community leaders make a decision on an economy-related issue.
    The program is identical to that of the first external competition eligibility test.
    Second Eligibility Test: Public Law
    The candidate is expected to write a summary note and proposals on a legal file. It is up to it to handle legal concepts, to master the legal, regulatory and jurisprudential framework of the action of local authorities.
    He is asked to make proposals to demonstrate his capacity to help community leaders to circumscribe legal risk and make a decision on a public law issue.
    The program is identical to that of the second external competition eligibility test.
    Third Eligibility Test: Organization and Management of Territorial Communities
    A concrete situation is subject to the candidate who must identify organizational or management issues before proposing the resolution both operationally and strategically. The response must be accurate, motivated and reasoned It must contain concrete solutions to the decision-making problem.
    The program is identical to that of the third external competition eligibility test.
    Fourth Eligibility Test: Question of Contemporary Society
    This composition test is intended to verify the candidate's understanding of his social and contemporary environment.
    His knowledge and analysis of this society depends, in fact, much of his ability to "help the decision" as a future management framework. The candidate must demonstrate critical capabilities and formulate a specific point of view.
    The perimeter of the question asked to candidates is limited to contemporary societal questions.
    This test does not include a program.
    Fifth Eligibility Test: Public Finance
    The purpose of this test is to assess the candidate's knowledge in the field of public finances through three to five questions that can be accompanied by one or more texts, graphics or statistical tables to explain and comment. A short file is submitted to the candidate for all questions.
    The program is identical to that of the fifth external competition eligibility test.


    Admission


    First admission test: Maintenance
    This trial must allow the jury to question the candidate on his motivations and abilities to perform the duties envisaged by the job framework of the territorial administrators. It must also lead to the evaluation of its knowledge, adaptability and analytical qualities and proposals. The objective for the candidate is to demonstrate his knowledge of the public sector and his ability to work within the territorial communities.
    This test does not include a program.
    Second admission test: Test for collective occupational status
    The collective work placement test aims to apprehend and verify the candidate's abilities in relation to others, at the time he is about to enter a school of application intended for executive functions.
    It is a question of appreciating his understanding of the issues of the subject and the situation. It will also be assessed its ability to argue, responsiveness and ability to listen to and implement cooperation relationships, as well as its ability to analyze and distancing.
    At least three candidates are nominated for each position. At the beginning of each situation, a random draw will determine the function of each candidate. The functions are performed by active territorial administrators.
    The occupational situations proposed to candidates will present local issues of an operational nature that lead to preconizations.
    Each collective situation starts with the jury reading the subject to the candidates, followed immediately by the exchanges between the candidates. The subject gives elements of a concrete situation and a specific directive that put them in a position to make a decision or to choose a direction.
    Before the end of the thirty minutes, candidates must develop a shared decision or direction.
    Each candidate is questioned by the jury on his analysis of the exchanges he participated for fifteen minutes following the interview test (first admission test).
    This test does not include a program.
    Third admission test: Oral test, with the candidate's choice at the time of registration, on questions relating to the European Union or social issues.
    The purpose of this test is to verify the candidate's understanding of European Union issues or social issues in connection with local public action.
    The program is identical to that of the third external competition admission test.
    Fourth Admission Test: Local Government Law and Management
    The purpose of this test is to verify the understanding of the candidate for the law and management of local communities.
    The program is identical to that of the fourth admission test of the external competition.
    Fifth admission test (optional): Foreign language
    The candidate will be assessed on his ability to read, understand and translate a text into the foreign language chosen for registration, express himself and hold a conversation in the chosen language and demonstrate his knowledge and/or affinity with the language and culture(s) associated with him. The expected level is usually that of a higher level of language education.
    This test does not include a program.


    THIRD CONCOURS
    Eligibility


    First Eligibility Test: Economy
    The candidate is expected to write a summary note and proposals on an economic record. The candidate must be able to operate in particular relations between economic concepts and the economic action of local communities. He is asked to make proposals to demonstrate his capacity to help community leaders make a decision on an economy-related issue.
    The program is identical to that of the first external competition eligibility test.
    Second Eligibility Test: Public Law
    The candidate is expected to write a summary note and proposals on a legal file. It is up to it to handle legal concepts, to master the legal, regulatory and jurisprudential framework of the action of local authorities.
    He is asked to make proposals to demonstrate his capacity to help community leaders to circumscribe legal risk and make a decision on a public law issue.
    The program is identical to that of the second external competition eligibility test.
    Third Eligibility Test: Organization and Management of Territorial Communities
    The test aims to assess the candidate's ability to identify, analyze and define the problems posed in the file and to indicate the solutions that the law, the operating conditions of the local authorities and the logics specific to local public policies allow them to provide. The purpose of the summary note is to quickly select the essential information contained in the file from an information or decision-making perspective and their structured, clear, neutral and rigorous reformulation.
    The program is identical to that of the third external competition eligibility test.
    Fourth Eligibility Test: Question of Contemporary Society
    This composition test is intended to verify the candidate's understanding of his social and contemporary environment.
    His knowledge and analysis of this society depends, in fact, much of his ability to "help the decision" as a future management framework. The candidate must demonstrate critical capabilities and formulate a specific point of view.
    The perimeter of the question asked to the candidate is limited to contemporary societal questions.
    This test does not include a program.
    Fifth Eligibility Test: Public Finance
    The purpose of this test is to assess the candidate's knowledge in the field of public finances through three to five questions that can be accompanied by one or more texts, graphics or statistical tables to explain and comment. A short file is submitted to the candidate for all questions.
    The program is identical to that of the fifth external competition eligibility test.


    Admission


    First admission test: Maintenance
    This trial must allow the jury to question the candidate on his motivations and abilities to perform the duties envisaged by the job framework of the territorial administrators. It must also lead to the evaluation of its knowledge, adaptability and analytical qualities and proposals. The objective for the candidate is to demonstrate his knowledge of the public sector and his ability to work within the territorial communities.
    This test does not include a program.
    Second admission test: Test for collective occupational status
    The collective work placement test aims to apprehend and verify the candidate's abilities in relation to others, at the time he is about to enter a school of application intended for executive functions.
    It is a question of appreciating his understanding of the issues of the subject and the situation. It will also be assessed its ability to argue, responsiveness and ability to listen to and implement cooperation relationships, as well as its ability to analyze and distancing.
    At least three candidates are nominated for each position. At the beginning of each situation, a random draw will determine the function of each candidate. The functions are performed by active territorial administrators.
    The occupational situations proposed to candidates will present local issues of an operational nature that lead to preconizations.
    Each collective situation starts with the jury reading the subject to the candidates, followed immediately by the exchanges between the candidates. The subject gives elements of a concrete situation and a specific directive that put them in a position to make a decision or to choose a direction.
    Before the end of the thirty minutes, candidates must develop a shared decision or direction.
    Each candidate is questioned by the jury on his analysis of the exchanges he participated for fifteen minutes following the interview test (first admission test).
    This test does not include a program.
    Third admission test: Oral test, with the candidate's choice at the time of registration, either on questions relating to the European Union or on social issues, or on the law and management of local authorities
    The purpose of this test is to verify the candidate's understanding of these three subjects in connection with local public action.
    The program is identical to those of the third and fourth external competition admission test.
    Fourth admission test (optional): Foreign language
    The candidate will be assessed on his ability to read, understand and translate a text into the foreign language chosen for registration, express himself and hold a conversation in the chosen language and demonstrate his knowledge and/or affinity with the language and culture(s) associated with him. The expected level is usually that of a higher level of language education.
    This test does not include a program.


Done on November 16, 2015.


Manuel Valls

By the Prime Minister:


Minister of Decentralization and Public Service,

Marylise Lebranchu


The Minister of the Interior,

Bernard Cazeneuve


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