Civil Administrator

In France, the civil administrators form the main thing body senior officials of the State, created at the same time as the National school of administration (ENA) by a Ordonnance of 1945. Placed under the theoretical supervision of the Prime Minister, the civil administrators have an interdepartmental vocation. If the majority of them result from the ENA, the executives of the administration are increasingly numerous with " to integrate into the turn extérieur" , i.e. by internal promotion; in this case, they profit from one additional training with the ENA.

The civil administrators have vocation to exert missions of design and framing in the various French ministries. Except in the ministries known as " techniques" , the head clerks, sub-managers and directors of central administration are almost always civil administrators. They are put at contribution for the writing of the bills or of Décret S. They can be detached or placed at the disposal in other organizations, in particular of the public corporations or State enterprises.

To choose their ministry at the exit of the ENA, the civil administrators put out of balance several factors, in particular:

the " prestige" of each ministry;
prospects for evolution: government departments with plate of broad management, where the prospects for internal mobility or external outlets are important are naturally more required than the " petits" ministries where the senior officials will have more difficulty in unroll a career;
remuneration: the ministry for the Economy is famous one of remunerative the

Among the reforms in progress in the public office, the removal of the barriers indemnitees as well as the easing of the statutory rules (reform of the detachment, of the provision of the civils servant), raise little by little the brakes to mobility in order to return to the interdepartmental bodies, to which belong the civil administrators, their original vocation.

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