Normal position of activity (NAP) in the State civil service

The activity is the administrative position (i.e. the situation) of the official who is assigned to a post corresponding to his grade and who performs the duties provided for in that post.

The normal position of activity (PNA) is a mechanism that allows the civil servant of the State to carry out tasks corresponding to those defined by special status of his body of membership, in a ministerial department (or public institution) other than his ministry of affiliation.

A State official in a normal working position may work in the following services:

• Services of its managing department (central services, decentralized services or services under national jurisdiction)
• Public institutions under the supervision of its managing ministry
• Services of another department (central government, decentralized services or services under national jurisdiction)
• Public institutions under the supervision of another ministry
• Services of independent administrative authorities which do not have legal personality.

The public institutions concerned may be:

• Public institutions of an administrative nature (EPA)
• Public scientific, cultural and professional institutions (EPSCP)
• Local public educational institutions (LPEs)
• Public establishments of an industrial and commercial nature (Epic), provided that such establishments may employ civil servants.

The NAP allows a State official to perform functions corresponding to those defined by the special status of its membership body in all corporate services and public institutions of the State, without having to request a secondment.

NAP assignment may occur at the request of the staff member or his/her home administration (e.g. in the context of the transfer of a service from one ministry to another).

When it is at the request of the official who applied for a job, his home administration checks that his future duties correspond to the missions defined by the particular status of his body of membership. If this is the case, the assignment in NAP can be pronounced.

Jurisdictions study the similarity of functions based on the Interdepartmental Directory of Government Trades (RIME).

Where an official is assigned to a public service or establishment under a ministry other than his home ministry, his assignment shall be pronounced by the authority competent for the management of his home body after obtaining the assent of the host administration.

And when the assignment is pronounced in a public institution, the ministry of tutelage is informed beforehand.

When a staff member is posted outside its home ministry, he can only hold the job for one duration of 3 years.

At the request of the host administration, the assignment may be renewed, per 3-year period.

Four months before the end of the three-year period, the host administration shall inform the staff member and his/her home administration of its decision as to whether or not to renew his/her assignment.

When the host administration decides not to renew the assignment at the end of a three-year period, the employee is reinstated in his home ministry, if necessary in excess.