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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
C0MC83) 61 final
Brussels, 10 February 1983
COMMISSION REPORT TO THE COUNCIL 
ON THE LOCATION OF COMMUNITY DEPARTMENTS
Situation at the end of November 1982

Article 10 of the Decision of 8 th April 1965 of the Representatives of the 
Governments of the Member States of the Provisional location of Certain Institutions 
and Departments of the Communities states that "the Governements of the Member 
States are willing to locate in Luxembourg, or to transfer thereto, other Community 
bodies and departments, particularly those concerned with finance, provided that 
their proper functioning can be ensured. To this end, they request the Commission 
to present to them annually a report on the current situation concerning the 
location of Community bodies and departments and on the possibility of taking new 
steps to give effect to this provision, account being taken of the need to ensure 
the proper functioning of the Communities".
Each year since 1968 the Commission has presented a report to the Council in 
compliance with these provisions.
This report, the fifteenth, describes the situation at the end of November 1982.
I. STAFF EMPLOYED IN BRUSSELS
1. At the end of November 1982 a total of 7.769 officials and local staff
(administrative appropriations) were permanently assigned to the various Commission 
departments in Brussels. This total was made up as follows :
Category A 2.009 
Language Service 1.023 
Category B 1.437 
Category C 2.593 
Category D '  413 
Local staff 294
7.769
2. These figures include a limited number of officials from departments located
in Luxembourg who have been assigned to Brussels for the purpose of liaising with 
departments there.
The officials involved number 32, from the following departments :
SOEC 18
Directorate-General for the
Information Market and Innovation 14
32
II.STAFF EMPLOYED IN LUXEMBOURG
1. At the end of November 1982 a total of 2.059 officials and local staff
(administrative appropriations) were permanently assigned to the various Commission 
departments in Luxembourg.This total was made up as follows :
Category A 321
Language Service 274
Category B 558
Category C 625
Category D 111
Local staff 170
2.059

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2. The staff of the Directorate-General and other departments of the
Commission located in Luxembourg was broken down as follows :
(1) the Statistical Office :  293 officials (105 A, 104 B and 84 C);
(1981 :  283 officials) (Note :  a further "8 officials - 7 A, 4 B and 
7 C - are assigned to the Brussels branch office);
(2) the Health and Safety Directorate (V-E) of the Directorate-General 
for Employment, Social Affairs and Education :  62 officials (28 A,
17 3 and 17 C); (1981 :  64 officials);
(3) the Directorate-General for the Information Market and Innovation :
137 officials and local staff (50 A, 28 B, 54 C, 4 D and 1  member of 
local staff); (1981 :  131 officials);
(4) the Directorate-General for Credit and Investments :  78 officials and 
local staff (30 A, 29 B, 18 C, 1  member of local staff); (1981 :  76 
officials);
(5) the Euratom Safeguards Directorate (XVII-F) of the Directorate-General 
for Energy :  160 officials (38 A, 83 3 and 39 C); (1981 :  155 officials)
(6) the Commission/European Investment Bank Liaison Office, attached to
the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs :  3 officials 
(1 A, IB and 1  C); (1981 :  2 officials);
(7) the Luxembourg Information Office (Directorate-General for Information)
5 officials (1 A, 3 B and 1  C); (1981 :  4 officials)
(8) administrative departments belonging to the Directorate-General for 
Personnel and Administration :  949 officials and local staff (44 A,
274 LA, 133 B, 296 C, 90 D and 112 local staff - apart from the staff 
paid out of the social service appropriations); (1981 :  937 officials).
3. A number of departments located in Brussels have assigned staff to
Luxembourg to improve contacts with the departments located there or to take
up duties with bodies based there. A total of 28 officials are posted on this
basis :
Secretariat-General 9 
Legal Service 2 
Security Office 4 
Directorate-General for Budgets 3 
Directorate-General for Financiel Control 8 
Directorate-General for Development 2
28
These figures are included in the table at II.1.

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4. Pursuant to the principal to move all Brussels-based production units back 
to Luxembourg, the number of staff from the Statistical Office serving in Brussels 
has been reduced to 18.
5. An Official Publications Office of the European Communities was established 
pursuant to Article 8 of the Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of 
the Member States. Under a Decision taken by the Community institutions on 
16 January 1969, the Publications Office is directed by a Managing Board consisting 
of representatives of the six institutions.
The Office's staff is currently made up as follows :
Category A 15 
Category B 152 
Category C 104 
Category D 17 
Local Staff 56
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COMMISSION PREMISES IN BRUSSELS - SITUATION AND PROSPECTS
At the end of last year the Council, by letter from its President dated  
16 December 1 981,  agreed in principle that the planned extension to  
rue de la Loi 120 should be financed from the Community budget. This  
project was included in the medium-term accommodation plan prepared by  
the Council and the Commission in 1976. The Commission has therefore  
proposed that the budgetary authority authorize the transfer of an initial  
tranche within the 1 982 budget and enter a second tranche in the 1983  
budget. These appropriations will cover the purchase and renovation of  
the existing building, reimbursement of costs already incurred by the  
Belgian State, tendering costs and an initial tranche for the actual  
construction work, which is due to start in 1983·
Three leases which were due to expire have been renegotiated in line  
with the market situation. These negotiations have led to considerable  
savings and technical improvements, in particular on the energy front.
One of the large complexes rented is now being extensively renovated by  
the owner. Renovation will turn this large building into a modern  
functional complex. About one quarter of the complex will be unavailable  
at any one time until the planned completion date in 1935· As a result  
of this and of the new posts granted in the 1982 budget, a new building  
(Marie de Bourgogne) had to be rented from the beginning of 1982.
The Archimede 5 building had to be abandoned for reasons of safety,  
convenience and loss of tenure. To replace this building, and in  
anticipation of the new posts which the budgetary authority will grant  
to the Commission in the 1933 budget, the Commission is looking for  
accommodation which satisfies the usual selection criteria as regards size,  
comfort and situation.
Finally, a new telephone exchange, the largest private exchange in the  
world, was opened at the Berlaymont in March 1982. This system provides  
a large number of incoming and outgoing lines and offers a number of  
modern techniques.

COMMISSION PREMISES IN LUXEMBOURG - SITUATION ill'll) PROSPECTS
In Luxembourg, all the different departments of the Commission have been  
contained since April 1  9^1 in two buildings: the Jean Monnet building,
with its three blocks and an annex for the new computer centre, and the  
building previously occupied by the datar-processing departments. One  
floor of the Jean Monnet building is now sub-let to the Court of Justice.
The Publications Office occupies two buildings: the building constructed
in 1973 near the central post office and the railway station (rue du Commerce)  
and a building in the nearby avenue de la Liberte. This annex had to be  
rented to cope with the introduction of Greek as an official language  
following the second enlargement of the Community. Work to increase the  
capacity of the first building started in 1982 on the initiative of the  
local authorities. The technical and administrative area of the Publications  
Office is being extended and the premises now occupied in the avenue de la  
Liberte will then be abandoned.
Lastly, as stated in earlier reports, physical and administrative measures  
will become necessary as the European Monetary System progresses and the  
European Monetary Cooperation Fund is set up.