CELEX: 51977PC0247
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-10
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC, EURATOM, ECSC) concerning the extension of the period of payment of the temporary flat-rate allowance provided for certain categories of officials (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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COM (77) 247
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                                                            COM(77)247 final.
                                                            Brussels , 10 June 1977 *
                                       Proposal for a                      ,
                           ; COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC , EURATOM , ECSC )
                 concerning the extension of the period of payment of the
                 temporary flat-rate allowance provided for certain cate­
                                      gories of officials                      /
                         ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
COM ( 77 ) 247 final
 ---pagebreak---       33CRSTARIAL ALL0WAJÏC3
  I. When the fixed temporary allowance for secretarial staff was put into the
      Staff Regulations , the main reason was that difficulties were being found in
      recruiting suitably qualified staff for secretarial work in the Community
      institutions .
 II . Is this still true in 1977 ? Surely unemployment has affected the labour
      market in the Member States in such a way as to eliminate these difficulties
      in recruiting the qualified secretarial staff which Community institutions
      require ?
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      The answer is : No . The general labour market situation has not solved the
      difficulties of recruiting such staff for , although the overall number of
     'applicants for secretarial posts is on the increase , the level of qualifications
      of those applicants is declining which means that a larger number of applicants
      does not mean a larger number of dosirable applicants . Yet tho demand for
      secretarial staff in the Communities is increasing.
      In addition , it is obvious that highly-qualified secretarial staff are not
      affected by unemployment problems in their home countries .
      Recruiting such persons has therefore not been made easier by the overall
      employment situtation which has no effect on such recruiting because of the
      special demands made on secretarial staff by the Community institutions ,
III. The Commurifcies have to recruit , over as wide a geographical area as possible ,
      secretarial staff possessing qualifications in excess of what would generally
      be required of them in their home countries .
      The special demands made upon such staff are related to general knowledge ,
      specific knowledge , constant adaptability and language knowledge .
      Certain specific requirements deserve to be spelled out : in both professional
      and personal terms working for the Community inevitably implies a permanent
      intellectual and mental effort to adapt oneself , While such an effort nay
      obviously be asked of personnel in the higher grades , even in a national
      setting, it is indisputable that what is required of secretarial staff in
      Community institutions goes far beyond what is required of them on their home
      ground .
 IV. These special requirements represent awkward problems for the staff in
      question and they will continue to have two major consequences . Firstly,
      recruiting secretarial staff with the high standard of qualifications required
      for secretarial duties with the Community will continue to be difficult .
      Secondly , the turnover of such personnel will be far in excess of tnat of
      other catagories ; the fluid nature of this section of the Community staff ,
      caused by the severity of the demands made upon them , means that new staff
      constantly have to be recruited .
  V. It follows from all this that the reasons for the introduction of the
      secretarial allowance have lost none of their validity , and may indeed have
      added to it .
      It has not become easier to persuade qualified staff to leave their accustomed
      environnment and work in intellectual and psychological conditions that are
      far more demanding than those to which they are used.
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 ---pagebreak--- PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC , EURATOM , ECSC ) N O
 concerning the extension of the period of payment of the temporary flat-rate
 allowance provided for certain categories of officials
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission
of the European Communities ,
Having regard to the Staff Regulations of Officials and Conditions of Employment
of Other Servants of the..European Communities , laid down by Regulation ( EEC ,
Euratom , EC3C ) No 259/68 and last amended by Regulation ( ECSC , EEC , Euratom )
No 3177/76 , and in particular Article 4a- of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations
and Articles 21 and 65 of the Conditions of Employment ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the temporary fixed allowance provided for in Article       of Annex VII
to the Staff Regulations should be retained ,
Whereas it is for the Council , acting by the procedure laid down in Article 65(3)
of the Staff Regulations , to determine the period for which the allowance shall
be paid ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                     Article 1
The period during which the temporary fixed allowance provided for in Article 4a
of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations can be paid is extended until 30 June 1979 .
                                     Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States .
For the Council ,
 OJ No L 56 , 4 M arch 1968 , p. 1 .
 OJ No L 359 , 30 December 1976 , p. 1 .