Public-sector medical exams repointed to July 2026 exams law

Candidates for State administration traineeships undergo their pre-admission medical examination under updated references from 11 October 2026. The consolidated version of the Règlement grand-ducal du 5 mars 2004 concernant la santé et la sécurité du travail et le contrôle médical dans la fonction publique, applicable that day, incorporates the amendments made by the Règlement grand-ducal du 25 septembre 2026.Public Article 3 of the 2004 regulation, which governs the medical examination of candidates, now points to the new recruitment framework instead of the repealed 2015 regimePublic.

The occupational physician examines candidates under the procedure of Article 14, paragraph 5, of the loi du 16 juillet 2026 portant fixation des conditions et modalités d'inscription et d'organisation des examens-concours d'admission au stage dans les administrations de l'État. That provision requires a medical certificate attesting that the candidate meets the physical and mental fitness conditions for the post soughtPublic, produced before admission to the traineeshipPublic and drawn up by the Division de la santé au travail du secteur publicPublic at the request of the administration holding the vacant postPublic. The physician records the detailed results on the special "certificat médical" form drawn up by the minister responsible for the Fonction publique.

The physician sends the examination results to the ministry or administration holding the vacant post, replacing the former transmission to the central recruitment servicePublic. The signed and stamped information states the candidate's surname and first name, date of birth, the post sought and the examination result, understood as fitness or unfitness for the post soughtPublic rather than for public-sector service in general. The completed certificate stays in the physician's department, where the candidate or the contrôle physician may consult it in the case covered by Article 12; where a private-sector general practitioner performed the examination, the candidate hands the certificate to the fonction publique occupational physician in person.

A candidate declared unfit at the recruitment examination may seek a second examination by the médecin de contrôle within eight days of the certificate reaching the minister responsible for the Fonction publiquePublic; that physician has eight days to examine the candidate and notify the competent minister or the Collège des Bourgmestre et échevinsPublic, and the contrôle physician's opinion settles the candidate's definitive fitness or unfitness.

The rest of the framework is unchanged: the occupational physician's ten missions in Article 2, periodic and ordered examinations of serving agents, medical secrecy with the formal written-consent exception, the forty-day complaint route against a finding of total and definitive unfitness, sick-leave controls by the médecin de contrôle, and the indoor smoking ban with its authorised fumoir regime.

Legal basis: consolidated Règlement grand-ducal du 5 mars 2004, Article 3 as amended by Article 1er of the Règlement grand-ducal du 25 septembre 2026 (whose Article 2 repeals the separate 30 September 2015 examens-concours regulationPublic), with Article 14, paragraph 5, of the loi du 16 juillet 2026.