Under what conditions can a public official combine his employment with a private activity?
Verified 14 May 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
You can exercise freely (ie without having to take any steps with your employer administration) the following activities outside of your working hours:
- Volunteer activity
- Artistic activity
- Functions of enumerator
- Harvest contract
- Functions of volunteer trustee
You can freely exercise these activities as you are civil servant or contractual, on a full-time employment (full-time or part-time) or non-full-time or incomplete employment.
You can freely engage in volunteer activity for the benefit of a public or private non-profit organization.
Your activity must not harm ethical principles of the public service.
You can freely exercise an artistic or creative activity.
You can freely create the following works:
- Books, brochures and other literary, artistic and scientific literature
- Lectures, speeches, sermons, oral arguments and other similar works
- Dramatic or dramatic musical works
- Choreographic works, circus numbers and rounds, pantomimes the implementation of which is fixed in writing or otherwise
- Musical compositions with or without words
- Cinematographic works and other works consisting of animated sequences of images, whether or not with sound, called audiovisual works
- Works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving, lithography
- Graphic and typographical works
- Photographic works and works made using techniques similar to photography
- Works of Applied Arts
- Illustrations, maps
- Plastic plans, sketches and works relating to geography, topography, architecture and science
- Software, including pre-build hardware
- Creations of the seasonal clothing and adornment industries
Like any artist, you must respect the copyright rules.
You can freely exercise the functions of enumerator.
You may freely conclude, during your annual leave, a contract to participate in the harvest of a maximum duration of one month, renewable up to a maximum of two months over a period of 12 months.
You can freely exercise the volunteer trustee duties of the condominium in which you are the owner yourself.