{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-781/article-7",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2011/781",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision 2011/781/CFSP of 1 December 2011 on the European Union Police Mission (EUPM) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-781",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "EUPM Staff",
  "text": "1. The numbers and competence of EUPM staff shall be consistent with the mission statement set out in Article 2, the mission key tasks set out in Article 3 and the structure set out in Article 4.\n2. EUPM shall consist primarily of staff seconded by Member States or Union institutions. Each Member State or Union institution shall bear the costs relating to any of the staff seconded by it, including travel expenses to and from the place of deployment, salaries, medical coverage and allowances other than applicable daily allowances, as well as hardship and risk allowances.\n3. International civilian staff and local staff may also be recruited by EUPM, as required, on a contractual basis, if the functions required are not provided by personnel seconded by Member States. Exceptionally, in duly justified cases, where no qualified applications from Member States are available, nationals from participating third States may be recruited on a contractual basis, as appropriate.\n4. All staff shall abide by the Mission-specific minimum security operating standards and the Mission security plan supporting the Union field security policy. As regards the protection of EU classified information with which staff are entrusted in the course of their duties, all staff shall respect the security principles and minimum standards established by Council Decision 2011/292/EU of 31 March 2011 on the security rules for protecting EU classified information.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 141, 27.5.2011, p. 17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2011/781/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:15:37.704157+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}