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

- OBJECTIVE: for the purposes of the Staff Regulations, treating the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the Ombudsman as institutions of the Communities. COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Regulation (Euratom, ECSC, EC) No 1354/96 of the Council modifying the ruling (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the conditions of employment of other servants of the European Communities. - SUBSTANCE: the object of the regulation is: . first, to remove the reference to the Court of Auditors in the second paragraph of Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68, which provided for this institution to be treated as an institution of the Communities for the purposes of the Staff Regulations (Treaty of Maastricht makes the Court of Auditors a Community Institution in its own right); . second, for the purposes of the Staff Regulations, to treat the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the Ombudsman as institutions of the Communities. At the same time, the authorities that have the power to appoint the officials of these institutions (Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions and the Ombudsman's Secretariat) are to be determined by their respective rules of procedure. ENTRY INTO FORCE: 13 July 1996. The regulation is applicable from the date of entry into force of the TEU (1 November 1993). �