Can an official take several availabilities in succession?
Verified 18 January 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Yes, you can request multiple availabilities in sequence for different reasons.
The duration of an availability varies according to the reason for which it is granted.
And, in some cases, the cumulative duration of consecutive availabilities is limited.
The rules vary depending on whether you are a member of the public service of the State (FPE), the territorial (FPT) or the hospital (FPH):
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EPF
Family reasons
The duration of availability differs depending on the reason for which it is granted.
Raising a child under the age of 12
Duration: Maximum 3 years renewable up to 12 years of the child
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
Providing care to a loved one following an accident or a serious illness or a disability requiring the presence of a third person
Close care recipient: dependent child, spouse, partner Civil partnerships: titleContent, ascendant
Duration: 3 years maximum renewable as long as the presence of a third person is justified
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
Follow your Civil partnership or partner who has to move for business reasons
Duration: Maximum 3 years renewable without limitation
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
Traveling overseas or abroad to adopt a child or children
Duration: maximum of 6 weeks per approval issued by anAse: titleContent
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
Personal Suitability
Duration: up to 5 years, renewable up to a maximum of 10 years for the entire career, provided that they return to the public service at least 18 months, at the latest at the end of a 5-year period
Periods of availability for personal convenience granted before March 29, 2019 are not included in the 5-year calculation.
If availability for personal convenience precedes or follows an availability to create or take over a company, the cumulative length of the 2 availabilities cannot exceed 5 years.
Conditions of award: subject to operational requirements
Exercise of another activity
Availability duration differs depending on the planned activity.
Creating or Resuming company
Duration: 2 years maximum non-renewable
If the availability to create or take back a company precedes or follows an availability for personal convenience, the cumulative duration of the 2 availabilities cannot exceed 5 years.
Conditions of award: subject to operational requirements and provided that the proposed activity is compatible with activities carried out in the public sector during the previous 3 years.
An official who has undertaken to serve the State for a minimum period of time must, when requesting availability to set up or take over a company, justify four years of actual service since becoming a member of the staff.
Studies or research of general interest
Duration: 3 years renewable once 3 years
Conditions of award: subject to operational requirements
To hold office as a local elected representative
Duration: term of office
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
FPT
Family reasons
The duration of availability differs depending on the reason for which it is granted.
Raising a child under the age of 12
Duration: Maximum 3 years renewable up to 12 years of the child
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
Providing care to a loved one following an accident or a serious illness or a disability requiring the presence of a third person
Close care recipient: dependent child, spouse, partner Civil partnerships: titleContent, ascendant
Duration: 3 years maximum renewable as long as the presence of a third person is justified
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
Follow your Civil partnership or partner who has to move for business reasons
Duration: Maximum 3 years renewable without limitation
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
Traveling overseas or abroad to adopt a child or children
Duration: maximum of 6 weeks per approval issued by anAse: titleContent
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
Personal Suitability
Duration: up to 5 years, renewable up to a maximum of 10 years for the entire career, provided that they return to the public service at least 18 months, at the latest at the end of a 5-year period
Periods of availability for personal convenience granted before March 29, 2019 are not included in the 5-year calculation.
If availability for personal convenience precedes or follows an availability to create or take over a company, the cumulative length of the 2 availabilities cannot exceed 5 years.
Conditions of award: subject to operational requirements
Exercise of another activity
Availability duration differs depending on the planned activity.
Creating or Resuming company
Duration: 2 years maximum non-renewable
If the availability to create or take back a company precedes or follows an availability for personal convenience, the cumulative duration of the 2 availabilities cannot exceed 5 years.
Conditions of award: subject to operational requirements and provided that the proposed activity is compatible with activities carried out in the public sector during the previous 3 years
Studies or research of general interest
Duration: 3 years renewable once 3 years
Conditions of award: subject to operational requirements
To hold office as a local elected representative
Duration: term of office
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
FPH
Family reasons
The duration of availability differs depending on the reason for which it is granted.
Raising a child under the age of 12
Duration: Maximum 3 years renewable up to 12 years of the child
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
Providing care to a loved one following an accident or a serious illness or a disability requiring the presence of a third person
Close care recipient: dependent child, spouse, partner Civil partnerships: titleContent, ascendant
Duration: 3 years maximum renewable as long as the presence of a third person is justified
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
Follow your Civil partnership or partner who has to move for business reasons
Duration: Maximum 3 years renewable without limitation
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
Traveling overseas or abroad to adopt a child or children
Duration: maximum of 6 weeks per approval issued by anAse: titleContent
Conditions of award: de jure (i.e. availability cannot be denied)
Personal Suitability
Duration: up to 5 years, renewable up to a maximum of 10 years for the entire career, provided that they return to the public service at least 18 months, at the latest at the end of a 5-year period.
Periods of availability for personal convenience granted before March 29, 2019 are not included in the 5-year calculation.
If availability for personal convenience precedes or follows an availability to create or take over a company, the cumulative length of the 2 availabilities cannot exceed 5 years.
Conditions of award: subject to operational requirements
An official who has undertaken to serve in the FPH for a minimum period of time shall, when requesting availability for personal reasons to carry out an activity in a private company or organization or a liberal profession, justify four years of actual service since his establishment in his home organization.
Exercise of another activity
Availability duration differs depending on the planned activity.
Creating or Resuming company
Duration: Maximum 2 years
If the availability to create or take back a company precedes or follows an availability for personal convenience, the cumulative duration of the 2 availabilities cannot exceed 5 years.
Conditions of award: subject to operational requirements and provided that the proposed activity is compatible with activities carried out in the public sector during the previous 3 years.
An official who has undertaken a commitment to serve for a minimum period of time shall, when requesting availability for the establishment or resumption of a company, justify four years of actual service since becoming a member of the staff.
Studies or research of general interest
Duration: 3 years renewable once 3 years
Conditions of award: subject to operational requirements
To carry on an activity in an international body
Duration: Maximum 5 years
Conditions of award: subject to operational requirements