# Council Decision (EU) 2016/1351 of 4 August 2016 concerning the Staff Regulations of the European Defence Agency, and repealing Decision 2004/676/EC, Article 3

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purposes of these Staff Regulations, ‘temporary staff’ means staff engaged to fill temporarily a post within the maximum number of posts authorised in the budget of the Agency.
For the purposes of these Staff Regulations, ‘special adviser’ means a person who, by reason of his special qualifications and notwithstanding gainful employment in some other capacity, is engaged to assist the Agency either regularly or for a specified period and who is paid from the total appropriations for the purpose under the relevant section of the budget.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2016/1351/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1351/article-3
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