Are you sure that you know what is staff representation and how does it function in the Commission?
Do you know that during the 2015-2018 mandate the President of the Brussels Local Staff Committee (LSC), Mr Łukasz Wardyn as well as the General Secretary of the LSC, Ms Paola Pagliarulo and the General Secretary of the Central Staff Committee (CSC), Ms Lorella Cattaruzza are Generation 2004 members?
The staff regulations are the legal basis for the establishment of the Staff Committee as a recognized body, to represent staff vis-à-vis their employer. The Staff Committee composition is a result of elections where several staff representative organisations (trade unions and staff associations) compete for the votes of all staff every three years.
The Brussels Local Staff Committee is composed of 27 elected and alternate members and it is the largest European Commission Local Committee (+/- 70% of staff), representing more than 22.000 officials and other agents of the European Commission in Brussels.
The LSC is your local section that ensures the protection of your interest and rights in relation to: conditions of the buildings and Offices in which we work (including open plan offices), training, over 40 leisure and sports clubs, restaurants, security and hygiene, kindergarten, after-school facilities and European school by collaborating with the administration of the Commission. The LSC submits suggestions directly to the administration on the organisation and operation of the services, the improvement of staff working conditions as well as on general living conditions.
The Central Staff Committee is the statutory body responsible for representing the interests of all staff of the institutions in all 9 sites (Brussels, Luxembourg, Ispra, Sevilla, Karlsruhe, Petten, Geel, France and Outside the Union). The CSC advises and discusses with the Commission administration almost all issues related to the application of rules on careers, working conditions and social policy. These include inter alia promotions, social policy, invalidity, discipline, incompetence, leave on personal grounds, sickness insurance, training, equal opportunities. It is responsible for appointing members to inter-institutional Joint Committees, such as the Staff Regulations Committee and the Medical Insurance Management Committee but also Promotion Committee responsible for all the appeals as well as committees, which handle the affairs of staff throughout the institution, such as the CSC on Equal Opportunities.
In the next Newsletter you will receive more insights about the activities and achievements of G2004 in the staff representation.
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• fundamental conditions of service
• basic rights, duties and obligations of staff.
The SR have been reformed x 2 (so far):
• 2004 (Kinnock White paper)
• 2014 (Regulation 1023/2013 [2])
For a summary of stated intentions and real outcomes of those two reforms check out: European Court of Auditors, 2019, Special report no 15/2019 [3]: Implementation of the 2014 staff reform package at the Commission – Big savings but not without consequences for staff
'); toolTips('.classtoolTips26','A committee whose members are from two or more different organisations. In the context of the staff representation at the Commission this means that the committee members are:
- 50% HR (\'the administration\')
- 50% trade unions and staff associations (OSPs).
Joint Committees at the Commission can be attached to the Central Staff Committee (CSC [4]) or to the Local Staff Committee (LSC): Brusels, Luxembourg, Ispra/Seville, Karlsruhe, Petten, Geel, France and Outside the Union (\'hors Union\'/\'CLP-HU\').'); toolTips('.classtoolTips34','A new Procedural Handbook for Invalidity Committees was published 25.11.2022 de [5] | en [6] | fr [7]
See also Special Report No 3/2003 on the invalidity pensions scheme of the European institutions, together with the institutions’ replies [8]
See also Staff Matters - Corporate - Invalidity [9] (Home [10]>Staff Matters [11]>Health [12]>Specific events [13]>Invalidity) and the calculation of the allowance [14].
Under certain circumstanaces you can work elsewhere while in receipt of an invalidity allowance:
\'Persons in receipt of an invalidity allowance may not engage in gainful employment without the prior authorisation of the Appointing Authority. Any income from such gainful employment which, in combination with the invalidity allowance, exceeds the final total remuneration received while in active service as determined on the basis of the salary scale in force on the first day of the month in which the allowance is to be paid shall be deducted from the invalidity allowance.\' Staff Regulations, VIII Pension scheme [15], Article 13(2)
'); toolTips('.classtoolTips39','‘Offices’ is normally used to mean 3 specific services [16]: OIB, OIL and the PMO but not EPSO, the OP or OLAF [16]. Unfortunately, the term is used differently elsewhere, so please always check! The draft Commission budget 2026 [17] (pp. 958-963) uses ‘Offices’ to cover all 6: OIB, OIL, PMO, EPSO, the OP and OLAF as do the General Implementation Provisions (GIP) C(2011)1264 [18].
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