15.7.2004 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 243/23
COUNCIL REGULATION (EC, Euratom) No 1292/2004
of 30 April 2004
amending Regulations No 422/67/EEC and No 5/67/Euratom determining the emoluments of the President and Members of the Commission and of the President, Judges, Advocates General and Registrar of the Court of Justice and of the President, Members and Registrar of the Court of First Instance
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 210 thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 123 thereof,
Having regard to the draft Regulation presented by the Commission on 2 April 2004,
Whereas:
(1) It is for the Council to determine the emoluments of the President and Members of the Commission and of the President, Judges, Advocates General and Registrar of the Court of Justice and of the President, Members and Registrar of the Court of First Instance.
(2) Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 723/2004 (1), amended Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 (2) laying down the Staff Regulations of officials and the Conditions of employment of other servants of the European Communities.
(3) As Regulations No 422/67/EEC and No 5/67/Euratom (3) makes applicable to the Members of the Commission, the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance by analogy a number of provisions of the abovementioned Staff Regulations, the said Regulation should therefore be amended accordingly,
Regulations No 422/67/EEC and No 5/67/Euratom shall be amended as follows:
1. the following second subparagraph shall be added to Article 1:
(a) in Articles 2 and 21a, the terms ‘the last step of grade A 1’ shall be replaced by the terms ‘the third step of grade 16’;
(b) in Article 2, the following paragraph shall be added:
3. the following Article shall be inserted:
4. in Article 6(c), the terms ‘for a grade A 1 official’ shall be deleted;
5. Article 9 shall be amended as follows:
— in the first subparagraph, the term ‘4,5 %’ shall be replaced by ‘4,275 %’,
— the following last subparagraph shall be added:
6. Article 11 shall be amended as follows:
(a) the third subparagraph shall be replaced by the following:
(b) in the fourth and fifth subparagraphs ‘60’ shall be replaced by ‘63’;
(c) in the fifth subparagraph, the terms ‘enabling him to be covered by another public sickness insurance scheme’ shall be deleted;
7. Article 15 shall be amended as follows:
(a) in paragraph 1:
— in the first subparagraph, the terms ‘the widow and dependent children of a member’ shall be replaced by ‘the surviving spouse and children dependent at the time of death of the member’,
— in the first indent of the second subparagraph, the term ‘widow’ shall be replaced by ‘surviving spouse’,
— in the second indent of the second subparagraph, the terms ‘where the mother is still alive’ shall be replaced by ‘where either the mother or the father is dead’,
— in the first indent of the third subparagraph, the term ‘widow’ shall be replaced by ‘surviving spouse’;
(b) in paragraph 5, the terms ‘has pension rights accruing to him under this Regulation, the wife’ shall be replaced by ‘has accrued pension rights under this Regulation, the spouse’;
(c) in paragraph 6, the term ‘widow’ shall be replaced by ‘surviving spouse’, the term ‘She’ shall be replaced by ‘The surviving spouse’ and the term ‘her’ shall be replaced by ‘the’;
(d) in paragraph 7, the term ‘widow’ shall be replaced by ‘surviving spouse’, and the terms ‘where he leaves’ shall be deleted;
(e) in paragraph 8, the term ‘widow’ shall be replaced by ‘surviving spouse’;
8. Article 19 shall be amended as follows:
(a) in paragraph 1, the terms ‘the currency of the country where the institution has its provisional seat’ shall be replaced by ‘euro’;
(b) paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following:
9. the following Article shall be inserted:
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 May 2004.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.