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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(79)790 final
Brussels,11thJanuary1980
COMMISSION REPORTTOTHECOUNCIL
ONTHELOCATION OFCOMMUNITY DEPARTMENTS
,
*
Situationattheendofthethirdquarterof1979
Ic-J'r_v r--.
COM(79)790final

Article10oftheDecisionoftheRepresentatives oftheGovernments ofthe
MemberStatesontheProvisional LocationofCertainInstitutions and
Departmentsofthe.Communities (MergerTreaty)statesthat"theGovernments
oftheMemberStatesarewillingtolocateinLuxembourg ,ortotransfer
thereto,otherCommunitybodiesanddepartments ,particularly thoseconcerned
withfinance,providedthattheirproperfunctioning canbeensured.To
thisend,theyrequesttheCommissiontopresenttothemannuallyareport
onthecurrentsituationconcerningthelocationofCommunitybodiesand
departments andonthepossibility oftakingnewstepstogiveeffectto
thisprovision,accountbeingtakenoftheneedtoensuretheproper
functioning oftheCommunities".
.Eachyearsince1968theCommissionhaspresentedareporttotheCouncil^"
incompliancewiththeseprovisions.
Thisreport,the-twelfth,describesthesituationattheendof
September1979* '
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I.STAFFEMPLOYEDINBRUSSELS
AttheendofSeptember1979atotalof7156officialsandlocalstaff
(administrative appropriations )werepermanentlyassignedto"thevarious
CommissiondepartmentsinBrussels.Thistotalwasmadeupasfollows:
CategoryA 1866 ~
LanguageService 949
CategoryB 1316
CategoryC*2333
CategoryD 350
Localstaff •342
7156
Ref.:SEC(68j3350final,25OctoberI968;
SEC(69)4897final,17DecemberI969;
SEC(70)3681final,27October1970;
SEC(7l)4684final,20December1971;
SEC(72)4493final,4January1973;
SEC(73)4390final,3December1973
SEC(74U77ifinal,9December1974;
SEC(75)4070final,3December1975■
C0M(76)710final,6January1977;
COM(77)714final,3JanuaryI978.
COM(79)47final,12February1979.

2.Thesefiguresincludealimited,numberofofficialsfromdepartments .
locatedinLuxembourgwhohavebeenassignedtoBrusselsforthepurpose
ofliaisingwithdepartmentsthere.
Theofficialsinvolvednumber53»fro®thefollowingdepartments :
»
SOSC 23-
ComputerOperationsDivision 7
Administration 9
AnalysisandProgramming
Department • 3
Directorate-General forScientific
andTechnicalInformation and
Information Management 11
53
II.STAFFEMPLOYEDINLUXEMBOURG
1.AsinBrussels,therewasaslightincreaseinthenumberofBtaff
employedbytheCommissioninLuxembourg.
AttheendofSeptember1979&totalof1857officialsandlocalstaff
(administrative appropriations )werepermanentlyassigned .tothevarious
Commissiondepartments inLuxembourg.Thistotalwasmadeupasfollows:
302
264 , .
489
577
79.
146'
1857
2.ihestaffoftheDirectorates-General andOtherdepartments ofthe
CommissionlocatedinLuxembourgwasbrokendownasfollows:
(i)ThoStAtinticnlOffice:275officials(101A,98B,and76C);
(1978:269officials)(Note:afurther23officials-12A,5B
end6C-areassignedtotheBrussels ,branchoffice);
(ii)TheHealthandSafetyDirectorate (V-F)oftheDirectorate-General
forEmploymentandSocialAffairs:68officials(29A,20Band
19C)(1978:64officials);
(iii)TheDirectorate–GeneralforScientificandTechnicalInformationand
InformationManagement:132officialsandlocalstaff(47A,27B,
52C,4Dand2localstaff);(197^:132);Category A
LanguageService
CategoryB
Category C
CategoryD
Localstaff
irecvorate-General forCreditandInvestments :75officialsand
^fjtaff(29A,26B,19Cand1memberoflocalstaff097°'75)

(v)TheEuratom Safeguards Directorate (XVII-E )oftheDirectorate -
General forEnergy :154officials (37A»79B311(138C)
(1978 :152officials ); ' ,
(vi)TheCommission /European Investment BankLiaison Office ,attached
totheDirectorate-General forEconomic andFinancial Affairs :
3officials (2A,1C)(1978 :2officials );
(vii)TheLuxembourg Information Office (Directorate-General for
Information ):3officials (lA,1Band1C)(19T8 :3officials );
(viii )Administrative departments "belonging totheDirectorate-General for
^personnel andAdministration :842 -officials andlocal staff (34A,
264LA,115Bi265C,63Dand101local staff -apart from thestaff
paid outofthesocial service appropriations )(1978 :828).
3.Anumber ofdepartments located inBrussels have assigned staff to
Luxembourg toimprove contacts with thedepartments located there orto
take upduties with bodies based there .Atotal of25officials are
posted onthis basis :
Secretariat-General , 7 .
Légal Service 2 .,
Security Office .4
Directorate-General forBudgets 3
Directorate-General forFinancial Control 7
Directorate-General forDevelopment 2
25
These figures areincluded inthetable atII.1.
4*Pursuant tothedecision taken inJune 1978 tomove allBrussels -
based production units back toLuxembourg within twoyears ,thenumber'
ofstaff from theStatistical Office serving inBrussels hasbeen
reduced from 27to23»
5.Inview ofthedevelopment oftheCommunity 's"borrowing-lending "
policy ,.theConKnission /European Invest merit Bank liaison Office hasbeen
assigned afurther Aofficial .
6.An"Official Publications Office oftheEuropean Communities "was
established pursuant toArticle 8oftheDecision oftheRepreserrtatives
oftheGovernments oftheMember States ,,Under aDecision taken bythe
Community institutions (including theESC)on16January 1969 »"the -
Publications Office isdirected byaManaging Board consisting of
representatives ofthe five institutions .

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The Office 'sstaff iscurrently made upasfollows :
Category A
Category B
Category C
Category D
Local Staff14
116
95
12
42
279
These figures arealso included mthetable atII.1.
III .COMMISSION PREMISES INBRUSSELS
Inthe context ofthe short andmedium –term programme presented tothe
Council inApril 1975 *under which theCommission planned toregroup its
departments inthree centres around therond-point Schuman ,thefollowing
events stand out in1979 J
–the steady progress ofconstruction work ontheremaining part ofthe
JE/c/Ltriangle ,which oncompletion (scheduled for1981 )will beable
tohouse allthe Commission 'sfinancial andadministrative departments ;
–thebeginning ofwork onthe construction ofaconference centre near
theplace Jourdan ,scheduled forcompletion bytheendof1981 ;
–the progress ofnegotiations with theBelgian authorities for the
construction oftwobuildings :the first ,tobecalled "Rtterbeek ",
will beanextension of120Loi ,while thesecond ,"Hot 4",will be
bordered bytheboulevard Charlemagne ,rue Stevin and rueJoseph II.
These twobuildings should beavailable by1983 .
Todeal with theserious shortage ofoffices noted in1978 ,which was
aggravated bythe staff increases under the 1979 budget ,theCommission
rented anadditional building with anarea ofaround 18000m2.
IV.COMMISSION PREMISES INLUXEMBOURG
InLuxembourg themain feature oftheyear hasbeen thecontinuation
ofconstruction work onthethird section oftheJean Monnet building ,
which oncompletion will allow alltheCommission departments in
Luxembourg tobehoused together inasingle building .
Unfortunately ,however ,thework hasfallen behind schedule andthe
completion date isnowexpected tobealmost ayear later than that
envisaged inlast year 'sreport (C0M(79)47 final of12February 1979 )•

Thebuilder'slatestforecastisthattheadministrative wingproperwill
behandedoverintwostages,on1December1979and1May1980,The
sectiondesignedspecificallyfortheComputerCentrewillbeready
towardstheendof1980.-•
Thismeansthatin1979theCommissioncontinuedtooccupy-thesame
buildingsasin1978.Additionalpremises(58rueGlesener)hadto
berented-pendingcompletionofthenewComputerCentre–tohouse,
oneofthecomputers(Siemens),whichneededtobemovedbeoausethe
airconditioning atthepresentComputerCentrewasunabletocope
withthecombined *heatgivenoffthetheICL,IBMandSiemenscomputers.
TheCommissiondepartmentsinLuxembourgwillnot,then,behoused
togetherintheJeanMonnetbuildinguntil1980/81.By1981theonly
officesinuseshouldbethoseintheJeanMonnetbuildingandthe
temporaryaccommodation rentedattheEuropeanCentreforuseduring
Councilmeetingsandpart–sessionsofParliament.
Finally,againintheJeanMonnetbuilding,thefifthfloorofthenewthirdseotionwillbemadeavailabletemporarilytotheCourtofJustioe
untiltheextensiontoitspresentpremises(whichtheowner,the
StateofLuxembourg,planstobeginshortly)iabuilt.
Theobservations inlastyear'sreportrelatingtotheEuropeanMonetary
Cooperation Fundare-nolessrelevanttoday.Clearly,iftheEMSisto
operateeffectively ,implementation ofsuccessivestagesoftheSty-stem
willneedtobeaccompanied byaprogressive adjustmentoftheback-up
servicesintermsofadministration andofficeaccommodation .
ThenewbuildingwhichtheLuxembourgauthoritiesareconstructing forthe
EuropeanParliamentwillbecompletedintheverynearfuture.Itis
beingprovidedinadditiontotheexistingpremises,andshouldenable
theenlargedParliamenttocarryoutitsdutiesinsurroundings appropriate
toitspresentneeds. -