The Plenary Session of the Council of State ruled illegal the 9 notices of the e-EFKA administrator to fill the positions of heads of general directorates and heads of regional services and by private individuals, according to an announcement by the president of the Supreme Court of Cassation Evangelia Nikas.

In particular, the Plenary of the CoE, in a closed-door conference, accepted the application of ADEDY and ruled that the e-EFKA governor’s notices to fill the disputed positions of supervisors and private individuals (with a three-year term) were not legal.

In more detail, the Plenary Session of the CoE decided that:

1) The decision of the Board of Directors of e-EFKA, in the part that determined that candidates for selection for positions of supervisors in the general directorates: a) Administrative Support, Technical Services and Housing, b) Strategy and Development, as well as c) in the Regional Coordination and Support Services of Central Greece, of Attica and Crete, as well as the respective challenged notices, “were not legal”. And they were not legal, because the conditions of law 4892/2022 are not met, since “it is not documented why private individuals can be placed in these positions, in view of their responsibilities, nature and mission, as temporary employees and not exclusively permanent public officials employees’, and

2) The decision of the Board of Directors of the e-EFKA and the challenged notices “were not legal as far as they set an age limit for participation in the procedure, deviating from the provisions of article 84 par. 4 of the Civil Code, despite the fact that law 4892/2022 expressly refers to the above provision of the Civil Service Code.

Furthermore, Mrs. Nika’s announcement states that the other grounds for annulment raised, which related to the selection process, were rejected.