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FP5 - Experts and Specialist Personnel

"Expert candidature" - Call for applications
"Candidates for temporary research posts"

IMPORTANT: Please note that the deadline for the submission of the applications has been postponed to 31 December 2002.

The Directorates-General responsible for implementing the Research and Technological Development (RTD) Policy of the Commission of the European Communities are inviting tenders for contracts not exceeding a total of three years for the management of projects and contracts under the Fifth RTD Framework Programme.

Successful applicants will be entered in a data base and may be used to fill any highly specialised vacancies which arise in these Directorates-General between 1999 and 2002.

The general conditions are:

• Nationality: Must be a national of one of the European Union's Member States.

• Place of employment: All places of employment, often outside the candidate's country of origin.

• Knowledge of languages: A thorough knowledge of one official Union language (Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish or Swedish) and a satisfactory knowledge of a second Union language.

• Closing date: Application forms must be returned before 30/06/2002.

• The paper form issued originally can only be obtained via postal mail. It can be requested from:

  European Commission
  NNPR Secretariat
  SDME 4/31
  200 Rue de la Loi
  B-1049 Bruxelles
  Belgium

  Fax: +32 2 296 22 39
  E-mail: NPPR@ec.europa.eu

  It is not possible to deal with requests not including a postal address.

  To ensure fast processing and introduction of all the application forms into the database we insist on the use of a black, medium, fibertip pen and the scrupulous following of the enclosed instructions.

  Applications for «A» category jobs will be given priority of processing over «B» and «C».