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Deputy Ministers Klaudia Tanner (defense) and Elisabeth Kstinger (civil service) announced on Tuesday that up to 2,000 more young people should be available per year, 1,200 for the federal government and 800 for the civil service. This is implemented by internal instructions and not by law. There had been criticism from the Greens beforehand, but they are no longer involved.
Meanwhile, it is officially from “Suitability new “speech, a” partial suitability “classification does not exist, even if Tanner still used the word at the press conference. In fact, all nine proficiency levels remain, but the criteria are broadened or the training requirements change This should lead to the fact that an athlete injured in the shoulder would be classified as fit in the future, Tanner said, but instead of using an assault rifle, he could be trained with pepper spray because of his injury.
It will be decided for each individual what they can and cannot do, says Tanner. In the future, only those for whom basic military service is physically and psychologically impossible should not be suitable. They want to start with the 2003 birth year. Those who have not yet been evaluated by the position committee this year due to the crown crisis will still be evaluated according to the old regime. The new criteria should start in March 2021.
Kstinger expected a five to six percent increase in the need for community service. The implementation of internal administrative regulations is also possible with it. A corresponding constitutional report is available.
Currently, only 66.5 percent of men who are required to serve are fit. While there were 17,000 military personnel in 2015, the number from the previous year was only 16,000. There were 16,200 civil servants in 2015 and only 13,400 in 2019. Those born with weak births pose an additional challenge, according to the military.
Tanner emphasized that changes in the Suitability it had been agreed in the joint government program with the Greens. There is also a straight resolution of the Cabinet of the spring. The Greens saw things differently in the end. Defense spokesman David Stgmller said in the “Standard” a few days ago: Talks about biased fitness are by no means happening and therefore there will be no constitutional fudge with us until January 1. No one can comment on this from the APA request.
But the NEOS were critical. “We are more than skeptical as to whether the introduction of partial fitness is even constitutionally permitted,” defense spokesman Douglas Hoyos said in a broadcast: “Until now, the Administrative Court ruling of the 1980s applied to the military service and therefore also alternative military service. only those that are mandatory are eligible that can be subjected to a minimum of physical exertion. How is that supposed to work when there is no longer a minimum, but this principle is circumvented with ‘lighter’ services? “
Reinhard Bsch, FP defense spokesman and chairman of the national defense committee, evaluated the concept presented as “a pure deviation from the deficit budget of the armed forces. “Assessing whether a young employee is suitable for certain areas and not others does not correspond to our understanding of a Suitability for the fulfillment of the conscription “, thus Bsch in a transmission.
