Direct integration of a staff member into another body/job

Verified 01 August 2026 - Public Service / (Prime Minister)

You are a civil servant and wish to carry out a mobility in a other body or framework of jobs in the same public service or in a other public service ? Direct integration can allow you, under certain conditions, to make this change of body or framework of jobs, without prior detachment. We present you the information to know.

If you are incumbent official in activity position and consider moving to another body or framework of jobs in the same or another public service, you can:

  • Either ask your detachment
  • Either ask your direct integration in this new corps or framework of jobs.

Direct integration comes into play without prior detachment.

All bodies and managers of the 3 public functions (State, territorial and hospital) are accessible by direct integration even if their special status does not provide for it or contains provisions to the contrary.

However, State bodies with jurisdictional powers are not accessible through direct integration. These are the following bodies:

  • Corps of Advisers to Administrative Tribunals and Administrative Courts of Appeal
  • Members of the Council of State
  • Body of Advisers of the Regional Chambers of Auditors and the Court of Auditors.

State and hospital bodies accessible by the exterior tower are also not accessible through direct integration. The exterior tower is a pathway by internal promotion to the advancement grades of certain A+ category bodies.

Direct integration into a body or framework of jobs may occur in the same public service or in another public service. For example, from the state to the territorial civil service.

Direct integration into a body or framework of jobs whose performance of duties is subject to the possession of a title or diploma is possible provided that he possesses this title or diploma. This is the case, for example, for the bodies or managers of nursing, medical and educational jobs.

Your original job body or framework and your integration job body or framework must be even hierarchical category (A, B or C) and comparable level.

The bodies or managers of jobs are considered of comparable level according to the conditions of recruitment or the level of missions defined in their special statuses.

Direct integration can be pronounced if at least one of these 2 criteria is met.

It's the host administration which shall examine the comparability of the recruitment and tasks of the corps and managers of posts of origin and reception, in liaison with the administration of origin.

Comparable recruitment conditions

The recruitment conditions include both:

  • The level of qualification or training required for access to the body or employment framework
  • The method of recruitment in the body or framework of jobs (competition, direct recruitment, internship period, etc.)
  • The pool and conditions of recruitment by internal promotion (categories of staff who may be promoted to the corps, training period before appointment, etc.).

An official may, at his request or with his consent, be integrated into a body or framework of posts whose conditions of recruitment are less high or less restrictive than in his original body or framework of posts.

This is the case, for example, of a civil servant belonging to a corps or cadre of posts recruiting with a baccalaureate + 5 directly integrated into a corps or cadre of posts recruiting with a baccalaureate + 3.

Nature of the missions

Missions are compared according to their nature, i.e. what characterizes them in general, the type of functions to which they give access and the type of activities or responsibilities that underpin them (e.g. direction, management, management, expertise, application, coordination, control, execution).

These tasks are those defined by the individual statutes and not those performed by a staff member in a given post.

You request by registered mail (with acknowledgement of receipt or hand delivered against receipt) direct integration with your host administration and your home administration.

A mail template is available:

Apply for direct integration into a body or framework of jobs (public service)

The direct integration is pronounced by your host administration, after agreement of your home administration.

Your home administration cannot oppose your departure, except service requirements.

It may require you to perform a notice of up to 3 months before your actual departure.

Your home administration has 2 months to respond to your request of direct integration. In the absence of a reply from the applicant within this period, your request shall be deemed to have been accepted.

Once your direct integration is pronounced by your host administration, your home administration pronounces your removal from its workforce.

FYI  

If you are a public official, you can benefit from the additional support allowance if you directly integrate a new body or job manager following the elimination of your position due to the restructuring of your service.

You are classified, in your new body or employment framework, at a grade equivalent to your previous grade.

In the absence of an equivalent grade, you are classified in the grade whose index of the last step is closest to the index of the last step of your original grade.

In your new grade, you are classified at the grade level with a gross index equal to the gross index you held in your original body or employment.

In the absence of an equal gross index, you are ranked at the level with a gross index that is immediately higher than your old gross index.

You retain your step seniority if the salary increase resulting from your direct integration is less than or equal to that which would have resulted from a step advancement in your original grade.

If you were at the last step in your original grade, you retain your seniority in step if the salary increase resulting from your direct integration is less than or equal to that obtained when you were promoted to the last step.

Services performed in your original body or employment setting are considered services performed in your new body or employment setting.