ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an in-depth and nuanced account of how Commission offi cials think about ethics in public offi ce. It is an exploratory exercise, meant to bring to light the patterns which pervade processes of ethical reasoning and map the lines of convergence and divergence. In short, this chapter offers a picture of ethics as it is represented on the work-fl oor at the European Commission. It is based on the views and experiences of employees who are not ethics experts but work for the organization in various other capacities. These are the people who now have to operate in the confi nes of the ethics regime produced by the administrative reforms of the last decade.
