European Parliament, Directorate-General for Personnel

The Directorate-General for Personnel helps ensure that Parliament’s other directorates-general have the human resources necessary to carry out their work. Its main tasks are:

• managing Parliament’s human resources, i.e. the officials and political groupand other staff, in accordance with the regulations applicable to officials and other staff of the European Communities;
• developing political strategies to improve women’s working conditions and promoting equal opportunities for each employee;
• successfully running Parliament’s staff policy by keeping it under review and improving it if necessary, while meeting the challenge of the enlargement of the European Union;
• giving staff access to vocational training (language training, training in management technique, IT training, etc.).