Press Release: Commission sets out staffing measures for External Action Service

The European Commission adopted on 9 June 2010 a draft proposal amending the Staff Regulations in view of the establishment of the External Action Service. The changes, which were discussed intensively with the staff unions, are aimed at ensuring equal treatment between the Service’s three sources of staff – from the Council, the Commission and the national diplomatic services. These proposals pave the way for setting up the basic framework of the EEAS’s personnel policy, but do not concern its organisation chart or the details of its future staff policy.