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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(78)667 final
Brussels.19December1978
Amendments tothe
Proposalfora
,COUNCILREGULATION (EEC)
relatingtothecreationofaEuropeanAgencyforCooperation
(EAC)
(presentedbytheCommissiontotheCouncilpursuanttothe
secondparagraphofArticle149oftheEECTreaty)
C0M(78)667final

Creation ofaEuropean Agency for Cooperation (EAC )
Inanearlier communication forwarded tothe Council andthe Parliament
(C0M(78)93 final of9March 1978 ),the Commission proposed that the European
Association forCooperation ,anon-profit -making association under Belgian law,
betransformed into anagency under Community public law,the European Agency
forCooperation .
This Agency would beresponsible ,onbehalf oftheCommission ,forrecruiting
andmanaging theexperts placed atthedisposal oftheCommission Delegations
andtheGovernments ofthecountries linked with the Community bycomprehensive
andpreferential cooperation agreements .
Adraft Council regulation based onArticle 235 oftheTreaty wasannexed tothe
communication referred toabove ;this draft regulation was concerned with the
establishment oftheAgency anddefined itsobjectives ,laid down the composition
ofitsAdministrative Board ,the latter 'spowers andthose ofthedirector ,the
Agency 'sresources ,theconditions forestablishing itsbudget ,thepresentation
ofitsaccounts totheEuropean Parliament andthe Council ,theauditing ofits
operations bythe court ofAuditors and the lawapplicable tocontracts
concluded bytheAgency under thesupervision ofthe Court ofJustice .
The initial examination ofthis proposal ,byboth thebodies ofthe Council and
those oftheParliament (Committee onDevelopment andCommittee onBudgets ),
hasshown that ,inorder todispel anyuncertainty ,theCommission must prepare
asupplementary communication clarifying animportant part oftheexplanatory
memorandum andamending thedraft regulation annexed thereto .
Such isthepurpose ofthis communication .
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Theclarification required intheexplanatory memorandum concerns theconditions
under which theAgency 'sbudget istobeprepared andadopted and itsaccounts
are tobeaudited .

HereitisclearthataccordingtoArticles15and18ofthedraftregulation
proposedbytheCommissiontheseproceduresareexactlythesameasthoseto
whichJ.neCo/.imissiorrsbudget-ndaccountsaresubject.Itisfarfrombeing
theCommission'sintentiontosetupadecentralized agencywhichwillnotbe
subjecttothecontrolofprerogatives oftheCouncil,theParliamentandthe
CourtofAuditors.
AccordingtoArticle15theAgency'sestimateofrevenueandexpenditureis
forwardedtothebudgetaryauthoritywiththepreliminarydraftbudgetofthe
Communities.Itisthereforecompletelysubjecttothenormalbudgetary
procedurealthoughcertaincommittees maybeaskedtogive
theiropinioninviewofthetechnicalnatureofthesubject(EDFCommittee
forexpenditure inconnectionwiththeDelegations intheACPcountries,
analogouscommitteesthataretobesetupfortheimplementation ofthe
cooperation agreementswiththeMediterranean countriesinsofarasthe
expenditure oftheDelegationsestablished inthosecountriesisconcerned).
Article18stipulatesthattheAgency'saccountsaretobesubmittedtothe
CourtofAuditorsforauditinginaccordancewithArticle206AoftheEEC
TreatyandthatadischargeistobegivenbytheParliamentinrespectofthe
financialadministration oftheAgencyundertheprocedurelaiddownin
Article206BoftheEECTreaty.
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TheamendmentproposedbytheCommissionconcernsArticle17ofthedraftCouncil
regulation,whichdealswiththestatusoftheAgency'sstaff.
Inlinewiththepointsmadebytheparliamentary committeestowhichthematter
wasreferreditwouldseemthatifitwerenecessaryforthetechnicalstaff
employedbytheAgencytomaintain-becauseoftheirmobility-linksofa
contractualnaturewiththeiremployer,therewouldbenothingtopreventgiving
thestatusofCommissionservant,whichismorepermanent,tothecategoriesof
staffwhosedutieshavemostincommonwiththoseperformedbyofficialsand
otherservantsoftheCommission.

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Provision hasalready been made forthis kind oftreatment fortheDelegates
themselves ,inrespect ofwhom theCommission hasalready obtained twice ,and
requested athird time for1979,posts oftemporary staff .Provisions canand
must nowbemade forlike treatment forthestaff oftheAgency 'sheadquarters ,
who,inBrussels ,perform tasks comparable inevery respect tothose oftheir
colleagues intheCommission 'sadministrative departments .
This iswhytheCommission proposes ,inareworded Article 17ofthedraft
Council regulation that isannexed tothis communication ,todraw adistinction
between :
(i)Commission Delegates andthestaff oftheAgency 'sheadquarters ,whose :
status will bethat oftemporary staff oftheCommunities ,although such
staff maythen beplaced atthedisposal oftheAgency ;and
(ii)theother external staff oftheAgency ,whose status will bedetermined by
> analogy with that ofthesaid temporary staff .
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This amendme «, notentail any financial consequences compared with the
initial proposal .Nonewfinancial memorandum hasbeen prepared since the
previous one isstill valid ;thelatter noted asaving forthebudget since the
taxes paid toBelgium onthesalaries ofheadquarters-based staff would nolonger _
bepayable .This principle isnotcalled into question .I
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Council Regulation
establishing aEuropean Agency forCooperation
Article 17 (new version )
1.Thegeneral terms ofemployment thegeneral system ofremuneration ,
allowances andadditional payments forCommission Delegates andthe staff
oftheAgency 'sheadquarters shall bedetermined bythe relevant provisions
applicable tothe temporary staff ofthe Communities .
2.Thegeneral terms ofemployment ,thegeneral system ofremuneration and
additional payments forother expatriate staff employed bytheAgency shall
bedetermined bytheCommission byanalogy with theprovisions applicable
tothetemporary staff ofthe Communities .