EC staff regulation: classify the Economic and Social Commitee ESC and the Committee of Regions in EC institutions

The proposal for a regulation seeks to amend Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the conditions of employment applying to other servants of the European Communities. The amendment seeks: - firstly, to remove the reference to the Court of Auditors in the second paragraph of Article 1 of this Regulation, which provided for this institution to be treated as an institution of the Communities for the purposes of the Staff Regulations (in fact the entry into force of the Treaty of Maastricht made the Court of Auditors a Community Institution in its own right); - secondly, to treat the Committee of the Regions as institutions of the Communities (in the same capacity as the Economic and Social Committee) for the purposes of the Staff Regulations. �