On the last day of the registration, few hours before the deadline there were 45.500 validated applications for the EPSO AD 5/7 general competition of 2012. The deadline was on 17 April at noon. The number of successful candidates for the competition is 275 split amongst the 5 fields of the competition.  Thus on average there will be165 persons/place (which may vary of course according to the different profile) - making this competition one of the toughest there is.

The places are split among the following fields:

This first stage of the competition - the computer based test -  will be composed of 6 different tests. These comprise the classic tests: Verbal, Numerical,  Abstract as well as the Situational Judgement Test. The first three will be held in participant's first (usually native) language and SJT in his second language.