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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1968-259/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/1968/259",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 of the Council of 29 February 1968 laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities and instituting special measures temporarily applicable to officials of the Commission",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities shall be as contained in the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community applicable on the entry into force of this Regulation, subject to the following amendments:\n1.. The title ‘Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community’.\n2.. Article 7\nIn the second subparagraph of paragraph 2, after ‘the Treaties establishing the Communities’, the words for the Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission ‘of.the European Communities’ shall be inserted.\n3.. Article 10\nIn the second paragraph the following sentence shall be inserted after the first sentence: ‘The Committee shall be consulted by the Commission on any proposal for the revision of the Staff Regulations; it shall make known its opinion within such period as may be set by the Commission’.\n4.. Articles 17 and 18\nThe words ‘work of the Communities’ and ‘property of the Community to whose activities such writings or work relate’ shall respectively be substituted for ‘work of the Community which he serves’ and ‘property of the Community which he serves’.\n5.. Article 23\nThe words ‘to the Protocol on’ and ‘in the Protocol on’ shall respectively be substituted for ‘to the Protocols on’ and ‘in the Protocols on’.\n6.. Article 24\nIn the first paragraph the words ‘The Communities shall assist any official’ shall be substituted for ‘Each Community shall assist any official in its service’.\nIn the second paragraph the words ‘They shall jointly and severally compensate’ shall be substituted for ‘It shall compensate’.\n7.. Article 63\nIn the first paragraph the words ‘in Belgian francs’ shall be substituted for ‘in the currency of the country where the Community which he serves has its provisional seat’.\nIn the third paragraph the words ‘Belgian francs’ shall be substituted for ‘that of the country where the Community which he serves has its provisional seat’.\n8.. Article 64\nIn the first paragraph the words ‘in Belgian francs’ shall be substituted for ‘in the currency of the country where the Community which he serves has its provisional seat’.\nIn the second paragraph the words ‘the Council’ and ‘on a proposal from the Commission’ shall respectively be substituted for ‘agreement between the Councils’ and ‘on proposals from the Commissions’.\n9.. Article 65\nIn the first subparagraph of paragraph 1 the words ‘Council’ and ‘Commission’ shall respectively be substituted for ‘Councils’ and ‘Commissions’.\nIn the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 the word ‘Council’ shall be substituted for ‘Councils’.\nIn paragraph 2 the words ‘the Council shall decide within two months’ shall be substituted for ‘the Councils shall decide by agreement, within two months’.\nIn paragraph 3 the words ‘Council’ and ‘on a proposal from the Commission’ shall respectively be substituted for ‘Councils’ and ‘on proposals from the Commissions’.\n10.. Article 82\nIn paragraph 2 the words ‘Council’ and ‘it’ shall be substituted for ‘Councils’ and ‘they’.\n11.. Article 83\nIn paragraph 1 a second subparagraph shall be inserted, worded as follows:\n‘The employment of the funds for the pension scheme referred to in Article 83 (1) of the former Staff Regulations of the European Coal and Steel Community shall be decided upon by the Council acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission after consulting the Staff Regulations Committee.’\nIn paragraph 4 the word ‘Council’ shall be substituted for ‘Councils’.\n12.. Article 91\nIn paragraph 1 the words ‘the Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘one of the Communities’.\n13.. Title VIII\nIn the heading the word ‘Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘European Atomic Energy Community’.\n14.. Article 92\nIn the first paragraph the word ‘Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘European Atomic Energy Community’.\n15.. Articles 93, 95, 99, and 100\nIn these Articles the words ‘Council’ and ‘Commission’ shall respectively be substituted for ‘Council of the European Atomic Energy Community’ and ‘Commission of the European Atomic Energy Community’.\n16.. Article 95\nIn the first paragraph the words ‘Until 31 December 1968’ shall be substituted for ‘For a period of six years from the date of entry into force of these Staff Regulations’.\nIn the second paragraph the words ‘For the period following that date’ shall be substituted for ‘At the end of this period’.\n17.. Article 107\nIn paragraph 3 the words ‘to the Communities’ and by the Communities shall respectively be substituted for ‘to the Community’ which he serves' and ‘by the Community’.\n18.. Annex I B\nIn the title the word ‘Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘European Atomic Energy Community’.\n19.. Annex III - Article 1\nIn paragraph 1 (a) the words ‘competition internal to the Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘competition internal to a single Community or to all three European Communities’.\n20.. Annex VII - Articles 4a, 14a and 14b\nThe word ‘Council’ shall be substituted for ‘Councils’.\n21.. Annex VII - Article 13, and Annex VIII - Articles 11, 12 and 13\nThe words ‘the Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘the Community which he serves’.\n22.. Annex VIII - Articles 11 and 46\nThe words ‘the Communities’ shall be substituted in Article 11 for ‘one of the Communities’ and in Article 46 for ‘any of the Communities’.\n23.. Annex VIII - Article 12a\nAfter Article 12 there shall be inserted an Article 12a, worded as follows:\n‘ Article 12a\nAn official who leaves the service before 1 July 1969 after serving less than eleven years but who is entitled to a retirement pension may opt to take the pension or a severance grant calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 12 (a) to (d).’\n24.. ‘ Annex VIII - Article 45\nIn the second paragraph the words ‘on behalf of the Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘on behalf of the Communitiy which the official served’.\nIn the fourth paragraph the word ‘Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘Community’.\n25.. Annex VIII - Article 47\nThe following shall be substituted for the text of Article 47:\n‘Where the invalidity or death of an official is caused by a third party the rights of action of the official or of those entitled under him against the third party shall vest in the Communities within the limits of their obligations under the pension scheme.’\n26.. Annex VIII - Article 51\nThe word ‘Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘Community which he served’.\nThe Staff Regulations as defined in the first paragraph and also such implementing regulations made by the Councils of the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community or by the Council of the European Communities as are applicable on the entry into force of this Regulation shall automatically apply to officials, former officials and those entitled under them to whom, before the entry into force this Regulation, the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community or the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Coal and Steel Community applied.\nArticles 93 to 105 of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Coal and Steel Community shall remain applicable to those officials to whom Article 92 of those Staff Regulations remains applicable on the entry into force of this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Regulation No 31 (EEC), 11 (EAEC) of 18 December 1961, OJ No 45, 14.6.1962, p. 1385/62, as amended before the entry into force of this Regulation."
    }
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      "type": "amendment",
      "affecting": "eur/2010/1080",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1080/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 amending the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of those Communities"
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      "affecting": "eur/2010/1080",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1080/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 amending the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of those Communities"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended by",
      "affecting": "eur/2013/1023",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1023/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 amending the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union"
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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