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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1968-259/article-3",
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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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1968-259",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities shall be determined by the provisions of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants 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.. Article 1\nThe words ‘the Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘any of the Communities’.\n2.. Article 2\nIn subparagraph (c), after ‘the Treaties establishing the Communities’, the words ‘or the Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities’ shall be inserted.\n3.. Article 5\nThe words ‘one of the institutions of the Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘one of the Communities’.\n4.. Articles 10. 94 and 95\nThe words ‘the Commission’ shall be substituted for ‘the Commission of the European Atomic Energy Community’.\n5.. Articles 33 and 40\nThe words ‘the Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘any of the three European Communities’.\n6.. Article 42\nIn the second paragraph the words ‘the budget of the Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘the budget of the Community out of which his salary is paid’.\n7.. Articles 43 and 48\nThe words ‘the Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘the Community which employed the servant’ and ‘the Community which he serves’.\n8.. Articles 70 and 98\nThe words ‘the Communities’ shall be substituted in Article 70 for ‘one or other of the three European Communities’ and in Article 98 for ‘one of:he three European Communities’.\n9.. Article 87\nIn the second paragraph the word ‘Communities’ shall be substituted for ‘Community’.\n10.. Articles 94 and 95\nThe words ‘the Council’ shall be substituted for ‘the Council of the European Atomic Energy Community’.\nThe Conditions of Employment 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 other servants, former other servants and those entitled under them to whom, before the entry into force of this Regulation, the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community applied.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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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  },
  "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."
}