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1st Meeting of the Council on the Comprehensive Reform of the Civil Servant System
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held the first meeting of the Council on the Comprehensive Reform of the Civil Servant System at the Prime Minister's Official Residence. The Council is established for the purpose of conducting comprehensive and systematic discussions on the issues of the overall public service personnel system, from the recruitment to the retirement of civil servants. In his address, Prime Minister Abe said, referring to the revised National Public Service Law established in the previous ordinary Diet session, "We were able to establish law to introduce a meritocratic and achievement-based evaluation system in the world of civil servants. The revised law prohibits intermediation by ministries and agencies for reemployment of their employees and introduces new restrictions with penalties for recruiting approaches by retired civil servants to those still serving. This law will serve as the foundation for dissolving the old civil servant system, which has supported the bureaucratic leadership during the postwar period, and revitalizing the system to adapt to the new era. With the enactment of this law, we overcome the biggest hurdle to reforming the civil servant system." Furthermore, Prime Minister Abe said concerning the next step, "Our task now is to draw up the whole picture of the new system based on the new law to complete the reform. I intend to build a new model that ensures the recruitment of highly spirited personnel who will work for national interest with a sense of mission, a system that enables capable civil servants to have a sense of pride in their work. I ask the Council to freely and actively discuss the entire public service personnel system, from the recruitment of the civil servants to their retirement, from a broad perspective without being restricted by the existing framework." Prime Minister thereby announced his policy to submit a basic bill for reforming the civil servant system to the next ordinary session of the Diet.
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