It is clear from Article 221 TFEU and from Article 5 of Decision 2010/427 establishing the organisation and functioning of the European External Action Service (EEAS) that the delegations provide the Union’s diplomatic representation in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961 and are placed under the authority of the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, so that a decision to recall a head of delegation to headquarters may not, as such, fall to the Executive Director of the European Ext ...[+++]ernal Action Service and Director of Human Resources.

Annul: (a) the decision of 18 December 2012 in so far as the Appeals Committee, under Article 22 of the Staff Regulations and Note to Staff No 715 HR/PO/2012-0103 of 29 March 2012, dismissed the appeal against the applicant’s staff report for 2011; (b) the part of that staff report containing the appraisal, in so far as the applicant’s performance is not summarised as ‘Exceptional’ or ‘Very good’ and in so far as no proposal is made to promote him to Function D, together with the part which sets his objectives for 2012; (c) all connected, consequent and prior measures, including the promotions referred to in the note from the Director of Human ...[+++] Resources ‘2011 staff appraisal exercise, award of promotions and titles’ of May 2012, given that, in view of the appraisal made by the applicant’s line managers and challenged in this action, the EIB failed to take him into consideration in the point ‘Promotions from Function E to D’;

Annul the decision of the Unit B.2 in Directorate — General Human Resources and Security of the European Commission dated 26 September 2012 which refused his recruitment at the Commission (ESTAT) from the reserve list of competition EPSO/AD/207/11 and adding a comment in the reserve list of that competition informing the Commission's departments that the applicant did not meet the conditions of eligibility for that competition;

annul Note HR.A 2 of 2 October 2014 sent by the European Commission’s Director-General for Human Resources to the Director-General for the European Union of the Italian Republic’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs;

6. With the exception of the decisions referred to in Article 15 of these Rules of Procedure, the Directorate-General responsible for the budget and the Directorate-General responsible for human resources and security shall be consulted on all documents which may have implications for the budget and finances or for personnel and administration respectively.

With respect to the nomination of directors for appointment by the body competent under national company law, the responsibility for identifying candidates to fill board vacancies should in principle be entrusted to a group composed mainly of executive directors, since executive directors can usefully bring their deep knowledge of the challenges facing the company and of the skills and experience of the human resources grown up within the company.