EC staff regulation: EP Members' assistance statute

With nine votes in favour, none against and with eleven abstentions the Committee approved, subject to a number of amendments, a Commission proposal aimed at regulating the conditions of employment for Members' assistants. After the vote, the rapporteur Mr Klaus-Heiner LEHNE (EPP, D) acknowledged that there were contradictions amongst the amendments adopted and that these would have to be sorted out in time for Plenary. This analysis was widely shared by committee members. The main point of difference between Members was regarding the extent to which the employment conditions should be laid down in the Staff regulations of the EC.�