Définition
The State Civil Service (FPE) includes the ministries and national public administrative establishments (EPA) such as France Travail, the CNRS or universities (Act No. 84-16 of 11 January 1984 constituting Title II of the general statute), with the exception of national social security EPAs whose normal recruitment status is private law (in particular the Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie, Cnam).
State civil service staff numbers include all employees payed by these bodies, whether civil servants or not.