EU diplomatic service | European External Action Service | EEAS [Abbr.]

diplomatic representation [ diplomatic corps | diplomatic delegation | diplomatic mission | diplomatic service ]

diplomatic relations [ diplomacy | diplomatic recognition | Diplomacy(ECLAS) ]

diplomatic profession [ ambassador | consul | delegation staff | diplomat | diplomatic agent | diplomatic representative | diplomatic staff ]

persons employed by diplomatic missions | service personnel of diplomatic representative offices

foreign service officer | her majesty's diplomat | diplomat | envoy

carry out diplomatic decisions | implement diplomatic decisions | make diplomatic decisions | undertake diplomatic decision making

administer diplomatic disaster management | utilise diplomatic disaster management | apply diplomatic crisis management | handle diplomatic crisis management

representation abroad (1) | diplomatic mission or consular post (2) | diplomatic and consular representation (3)

It follows that, in view of the level of higher education required by the vacancy notice in the case of candidates who are staff from the national diplomatic services of the Member States, namely that provided for in Article 5(3)(b)(i) of the Staff Regulations for appointment to grades 5 and 6 in function group AD, and the number of years’ minimum professional experience required, which was only two, candidates who were staff from the national diplomatic services of the Member States, which included the applicant, could not be misled ...[+++]with regard to the grade that corresponded to the vacant post.

Staff from national diplomatic services of the Member States who were selected under the procedure laid down in Article 98(1) of the Staff Regulations and who are seconded by their national diplomatic services shall be engaged as temporary staff under Article 2(e) [of the CEOS].

It is clear from paragraph 1 of the first group of eligibility criteria contained in the vacancy notice that, according to Article 98 of the Staff Regulations, candidates must be officials of the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, of the Commission or of the EEAS, or temporary staff to whom Article 2(e) of the CEOS applies, that is to say, staff seconded from the national diplomatic services of the Member States engaged in order to occupy temporarily a permanent post within the EEAS, or staff from the national diplomatic services of the Member States.

There is no breach of the principle of equal treatment where a vacancy notice published by an EU body provides, first, that if the post is filled by an official he will retain his grade and, second, that if it is filled by secondment of a member of staff of a Member State’s diplomatic service he will be recruited as a member of the temporary staff in grade AD 5, which has the effect of preventing the latter from asserting his seniority, in so far as EU officials and staff of the Member States’ national diplomatic services who are seconded to an EU institution or body are not in an identical or a similar situation as regards the framework ...[+++] within which their career is supposed to progress, or indeed the way in which their administration of origin assesses their seniority.