In December 2010, the Commission adopted a Strategy on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men within the Commission (2010-2014), setting targets for gender balance in senior management as well as in other posts (middle management and non-management policy level).

You are outside the scope of the Public Service Commission, and you hire your own staff?

5. By way of derogation from paragraph 3, and even if the criteria specified in paragraph 2 have not been fulfilled, the Commission may, for a limited period and in accordance with Article 301a, and assisted by EIOPA in accordance with Article 33(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010, adopt delegated acts determining that the prudential regime of a third country applied to undertakings the parent undertaking of which has its head office outside the Union on 1 January 2014 is temporarily equivalent to that laid down in Title I, if that third country has complied with at least the following criteria:

Question No. 872 Hon. Hedy Fry: With regard to emergency preparedness at the Department of Public Safety and the decision by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to develop four additional nuclear reactors at the Darlington Nuclear Power Generation Station: (a) what are the plans in the event of a nuclear accident at Darlington for (i) communication to radioactive-affected areas, (ii) evacuation to specified and alternative areas in the event of changes in wind directions, (iii) immediate health care to evacuees, (iv) immediate protection for emergency workers, (v) patients already in hospital who would need to be evacuated outside the ...[+++] affected zone, (vi) accurate and timely information to the media; (b) what are the plans for ameliorative distribution of iodine tablets; (c) what immediate protective measures will be promoted and how will information about these measures be communicated; (d) what is the replacement source of power in the event that the accident eliminates the use of the Darlington nuclear reactors; (e) what are the plans to ensure access to uncontaminated food sources and distribution channels; (f) have emergency workers been trained in the handling of radioactive material and actions within radiation contaminated areas; (g) where will additional emergency workers be drawn from and what arrangements will be made to register all workers and follow their radiation exposure levels; (h) what are the plans to measure soil and plant contamination and what is the baseline radioactivity in the biosphere in the 100 kilometre zone around Darlington; (i) will all potential victims of an accident be registered, including their locations at the time of the accident, and will there be epidemiological studies of subsequent effects; and (j) what are the plans to provide support to evacuees including (i) mental health care, (ii) finding re-employment for those whose jobs have been lost, (iii) redirecting the expertise of the nuclear power plant workers, ( ...

On the initiative of Lord Tope (UK-ELDR), chairman of the Commission for Constitutional Affairs and European Governance, and at the request of Mercedes Bresso (IT-PES), President of the Province of Turin, the commission's meeting away from Brussels will be devoted to discussing the future of the Union, with a few days to go before the start of the Intergovernmental Conference mandated to finalise the draft EU constitution.

For example, Brussels staff who make up 68% of the total Commission workforce would have 68% of the 41 places on the Staff Representation Committee 26 seats instead of the 47% - 19 seats which they have now.