Reform of staff regulations: JURI broadly backs Commission proposal

The European Commission’s proposals to reform the EU staff regulations were broadly supported by the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), on 25 April. The central plank of the reforms - a 5% staff reduction in each institution and agency - stays in Dagmar Roth-Behrendt’s (S&D, Germany) report backed by 19 MEPs (three against and two abstentions). JURI members also added new rules to protect whistleblowers and a cooling-off period for civil servants in order to prevent conflicts of interest.

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