Strategy of Public Administration Reform 2008-2013 Draft.
Below is described an overview of the actual situation regarding the main components of the
Albanian PA reform, as the basic principles of the CS, global management of the human resources, functional and structural organization of the PA, and also the procedures and essential processes of decision making and the accomplishment of the PA services.

Law no. 8549 dated 11.11. 1999, “Public Official Status” created a mixed civil service system, mainly based in the position model, combining it with elements of the career system. The prevalent character of the positions system can be distinguished by elements such as: recruiting criteria, promotion, horizontal movement etc.
The law mentioned above has aimed to create a relatively opened system of the CS, creating in the same time premises for internal and career mobility. The indicators of the last years with regard to promotion and horizontal mobility testify, however, that in practice we have to do with a nearly totally opened system, especially including CS mid and high level (general secretary, general director and the director in the ministry directory) The recruitment's for the majority of these positions are carried out through open competition procedures for the outer candidates, but without leaving out the competition the actual
public officials.
The most important advantage of this situation was to attract qualified individuals towards CS (graduated in foreign universities or with positive experience in the private sector), that have never been part of the public administration. The disadvantage of this opening is regarded to the fact that it can cause motivation decline of the actual CS public officials, who would like to see more career elements in the system.
The above phenomena is mainly a consequence of the strong connection to the position (of
its emplacement in the center of the system), thing that makes sufficiently rigid the mobility
and sufficiently justificatory the opening, having potentially effect on the public officials
mobility. On the other hand, there are also some problems that are linked with the legal clarity and the inhibitory elements that are part of this system (for example: the 1 year probe period even in the case of horizontal movement in similar positions)
1.1.2 Vertical scope the vertical scope of the CSL purview begins, according to a hierarchic scheme, from the position of the ministry general secretary and goes down to the specialist level. In practice until today it can be distinguished, a pleasant consolidation in the low and medium levels