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Public employment, despite the silence of the Maastricht offi-cial documents on the issue, is nevertheless important for the achievement of the community social policy targets. The working of public administrations and, consequently, their capacity to lead integrated policies are indeed conditioned by the quality of the employment relationship with the civil servants. Moreover, civil servants themselves are addressed by the Eec social policies. On the Author's opinion, the Maastricht Treaty and the Protocol can be applied to public employment, as well. He analyses, in turn, the role to be played by collective bargaining in the public em-ployment sector, and the questions raised, even before the Court of Justice, by the applicability to public employees of the principie of free circulation of workers within the community. In the end, the Author propones to re-shape the category of public employ-ment adopted at the Eec level.
