Competences of Vice-President ASHTON in respect of selection procedures and appointments for middle and senior management functions

The selection procedures and appointments for middle and senior management functions of the future European External Action Service (EEAS) should already at the present stage be carried out in accordance with the principles that will apply to the EEAS after its formal establishment.

For this reason, the College decided on 23 June 2010 (PV(2010) 1923):

• that, by derogation from Decision C(2010) 3680 of 15 June 2010 on the Appointing Authority, the powers conferred by the Staff Regulations on the Appointing Authority and by the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants (CEOS) on the Authority Empowered to Conclude Contracts of Employment shall be exercised by Vice-President ASHTON with regard to selection procedures and appointments for senior and middle management functions that are created in the organisation chart of the EEAS or will be transferred from Commission departments to the EEAS;
   
• to authorise Vice-President ASHTON to derogate, where necessary, in respect of the selection procedures and appointments for the aforementioned senior and middle management functions from all the relevant Commission decisions, while ensuring the application of selection procedures in line with the Staff Regulations and the CEOS.

These decisions took effect immediately. The decision taken by the College on 24 February 2010 in respect of appointments of Heads of Delegation at Head of Unit level in the framework of the 2010 rotation (Administrative Notice No 33-2010 of 10 June 2010) remains applicable.