Brussels, 27/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - Tomorrow, the European Commission will table a group of significant proposals on the reform of its administration. The College will adopt "consultation documents" on recruitment, the unfolding of careers and pensions. These documents will act as a basis for the talks with personnel and the trade unions, and will constitute, once implemented, a new personnel policy, explains the entourage of Commissioner Kinnock. At the heart of these proposals lies the desire to centre promotion on merit more than on seniority. More specifically, the main proposals cover the structure of careers (grades, echelons…) , the assessment of work by civil servants, the promotion system (including a taking into account of this assessment as well as seniority), the mobility of civil servants, employees and pensions, training and the competition system. The civil servant trade unions, which criticise several aspects of the reform (especially that of the careers and promotion systems) as well as a lack of consultation, will meet the College before its meeting, and called on all civil servants to gather before the building which hosts the College (Breydel building) to keep them "informed".