1. Lessons to be learned from the 2011-2012 exercise
Doc.A65/13/08
Unit C3
Lessons to be learned from the exercise
Working Group on A65 and Annex XI of the Staff Regulations
Meeting in Luxembourg on Friday 22 March 2013 at 09:30 am

2. Outline of the presentation
Use of the SRQ for exercise
Why a SRQ?
Are countries using the SRQ?
Do countries respect the timetable?
Is the SRQ completed in full?
Lessons to be learned for the 2013 exercise
From SRQ to SI
Reminder of methodology
Available results for 2012 (EU27)

3. Why a Standard Remuneration Questionnaire?
March 2011 A65WG decided to again use SRQ:
Renew March 2007 decision : that all MS would use it
Renew March 2009 decision : send SRQ via e-DAMIS
Renew March 2011 decision : limit dissemination
The SRQ aims:
To collect all data required to estimate the Country Specific Indicator (SI)
To provide additional information
To standardize data collection

4. Did countries use the 2012 SRQ ?
Table 1a of document
Situation at
Did countries use the 2012 SRQ ?
Used SRQ ? Sample Other
Provided extra information? Sample Other
Yes 8 16
FR, NL BG No - 6 15
Missing
EE part (FI, RO)
EE, FI, RO 19

5. Did countries use e-DAMIS?
No table in document
Situation at
Did countries use e-DAMIS?
Sample Other
Yes 4 15 No
ES, FR, LU, NL DK
Missing -
EE, FI, RO 8 19
NB.
eDAMIS is official transmission tool
some access problems reported by FR and DK

6. Timing of first data transmission
Table 2 of document
Situation at
Timing of first data transmission
Sample of 8
Timing
2012
2011
Before deadline 6 7
Aug. 1 -
Sep.
Oct.
longer
Missing 8
19 non sample countries
Timing
2012
2011
Before deadline 12 15
Jan. 3
Feb. 1 -
Mar.
longer
Missing
EE, FI, RO BG 19
For most countries, date of 2012 first transmission is similar than 2011…THANK YOU

7. Number of data transmissions required
Table 2 of document
Situation at
Number of data transmissions required
send
2012
2011 +0 3 12 6 +1 4 1 - 2 +2 +3
more
Missing 3*
1** 27
* No SRQ for Estonia, partial data for Romania & Finland in 2012
** No SRQ for Bulgaria in 2011
At first sight it appears that more transmissions were necessary in 2012.
For 2012 we did receive data from Bulgaria, but because of a new pay system comparison is not possible. No salary data were received from Finland (discussions are ongoing) nor from Romania and Estonia (both expected during March).

8. Data validation status
Table 2 of document
Situation at
Data validation status
Sample of 8
Timing
2012
2011
Before
Sept. 6 5 - 1
Oct. 2
Nov.
Dec.
N/A 8
19 non sample countries
Timing
2012
2011
Before
Jan. 1 3 11 14
Feb. 2 -
Mar.
More
N/A
BG,FI,RO,SI RO
18*
18+
+ No data for Bulgaria
* No data for Estonia

9. Reminder: content of the SRQ
Personnel (by category and grade). - Sample and reference population
Current salary - Gross, net and compulsory deductions. - Minimum, median & maximum values by grade. - Two marital statuses.
Components of salary (explain the changes).
Working time (hours of work, leave, retirement age, …).
Legislative texts.

10. SRQ Table 1 (“Staff”) Table 3 of document
Situation at
SRQ Table 1 (“Staff”)
Data reference year updated to 2012 for most (=21) countries. - Greece data refers to Spain data refers to Italia data refers to Slovenia data refers to no data for Estonia
Sample coverage exceeds 75% for most countries. - Bulgaria, Estonia & Finland Not Available - Slovakia = 30.5%
- United Kingdom (= 8 depts.) = 69.8
(Note: staff numbers were discussed in detail at 2008 A65WG).

11. SRQ Table 2 (“Current salary”)
Table 4b of document
Situation at
SRQ Table 2 (“Current salary”)
No salary for median step from Italy, Luxembourg and UK.
No min/max salary for Denmark, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden.
No married data for UK, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Poland and Sweden (ie. marital status is not relevant)
These differences are normal: the salary systems are different in each Member State.
Data is coherent with Table 1 (“staff”)

12. SRQ Table 3 (“Components of gross”)
Table 5a of document
SRQ Table 3 (“Components of gross”)
Explanations were provided and helpful.

13. Conclusions As agreed, full use of SRQ and e-DAMIS THANK YOU
Waiting salary data from Estonia, Romania & Finland.
Timely transmission THANK YOU
(non sample) and (sample of 8) transmission deadlines broadly met
Timely validation THANK YOU
(non sample) and (sample of 8) validation deadlines broadly met
Well completed THANK YOU
Detailed clarifications only required for certain countries
Tables 1+2 consistent
Table 1 fresh data supplied by most countries
Median (+min +max) for most countries
Married+Single for most (except where irrelevant)
Most countries supplied explanations (Table 3)
Many countries supplied references to legislation (Table 5)

14. Lessons to be learned for the 2013 exercise?
Delegates are invited :
to identify any particular difficulties they encountered, and suggest potential process improvements
to recommend improvements to reports
A possible lesson for the proposed reform:
In total, 9 MS required more than one transmission/contact
Systems/procedures may need to be reviewed?
NOTE REPORTING TIMETABLE IS NOW SAME FOR EVERYONE

15. Getting from SRQ to country SI… See method manual, appendix two for a worked example

16. EU27 country specific indicator values for 2012
Delegates are invited to :
Take note of the detailed information contained in the room documents:
Annex 2 report for the 8 countries in the sample (doc A65/13/09)
Annex 2 report for remaining 19 Member States (doc A65/13/10)