Samkvæmt 245. grein TFEU og siðareglum framkvæmdastjórnarinnar frá 2018 þurfa fráfarandi framkvæmdastjórar ESB að virða tveggja ára biðtíma (þriggja ára fyrir forseta) áður en þeir taka við störfum sem tengjast fyrri starfssviði. Reglurnar voru hertar eftir að José Manuel Barroso gekk til liðs við Goldman Sachs árið 2016.
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The EU Treaty framework imposes specific post-employment obligations on senior EU officials. Article 245 TFEU (Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) states that members of the European Commission shall, both during and after their term of office, 'respect the obligations arising therefrom and in particular their duty to behave with integrity and discretion as regards the acceptance, after they have ceased to hold office, of certain appointments or benefits.' The European Commission's Code of Conduct for Commissioners (revised 2018) operationalises this: departing Commissioners face a 2-year cooling-off period (3 years for the Commission President) during which they must notify the Commission of any intended new professional activity and obtain approval. If the activity relates to their former portfolio, it is presumptively prohibited during the cooling-off period. The European Ombudsman has investigated several cases of alleged revolving-door violations, most notably the move of former Commission President José Manuel Barroso to Goldman Sachs in 2016, which led to the strengthening of the code in 2018. Despite these rules, enforcement remains contested — the Commission's own ad hoc ethics committee assesses notifications, but critics argue it lacks independence. The European Parliament has repeatedly called for the establishment of an independent EU ethics body.
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Article 245 TFEU; European Commission Code of Conduct for Commissioners (C(2018) 700); European Ombudsman Decision OI/1/2021/KR
Framkvæmdastjórn Evrópusambandsins er framkvæmdarvald ESB sem leggur fram lagafrumvörp og hefur eftirlit með framkvæmd sáttmála og reglna sambandsins.
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EU revolving-door rules apply to Commissioners and senior EU staff, not to member state officials in Council formations or national representatives. If Iceland joined the EU, its Commissioner would be subject to these rules, but Icelandic ministers attending Council meetings would not. The rules have been criticised both as too weak (by transparency NGOs like Transparency International EU) and as too intrusive (by those who argue they deter qualified candidates from serving). The 2018 strengthening was partly a response to the Barroso controversy but has not been tested in a comparable high-profile case since.
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Flott embætti í boði fyrir ESB ríki Vísir
- Að hluta staðfest Styður Aðildarríki ESB eigi tilkall til ýmissa embætta innan stofnana sambandsins og sagan sýni að æðstu embættin séu gjarnan skipuð fyrrum ráðherrum og háttsettum embættismönnum.