Press Release: European Commission makes further appointments at senior management level

The Commission has taken, upon a proposal from President Barroso and Vice-President Šefčovič, important decisions relating to its Senior Management Staff. Following its decision earlier this year to reserve a number of Senior Management posts for nationals of Member States which recently joined the Union, the Commission is appointing a Maltese national as Deputy Director-General in DG SANCO, three Romanian nationals on Director posts or equivalent in DG AGRI, ENER and RTD, two Lithuanians on Director posts or equivalent in DG AIDCO and in DG COMP, and one Principal Adviser of Polish nationality in DG SCIC. These appointments follow the recent nomination of a Slovak national in the Publication Office in Luxembourg. The Commission has also taken a number of other staffing decisions; the appointment of the three Deputy Secretaries-General; two Deputy Directors-General in DG AGRI; one Deputy Director-General in DG EAC; one Deputy Director-General in DG SANCO; the Director responsible for Civil Justice in DG JUST; three Principal Advisers in DG CLIMA, COMP and HOME; the transfers of four Directors to a function of Director in DG EMPL, ENTR and the Secretariat General as well as to the function of Head of Service in the newly created Foreign Policy Instruments Service. This is the third wave of appointments since this Commission came into office. With this package, the Commission reaffirms the principle that appointments are made on the basis of merit as a first criterion.