17. On the operational planning level, calls for a significant strengthening of civilian planning capabilities to match the ambitions of civilian CSDP missions, by consolidating the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC) as regards staffing levels as well as by means of a better division of tasks between the strategic and operational levels; stresses that this division of tasks needs to be based on a balanced and comprehensive personnel strategy; ...[+++] takes the view that, in the light of the responsibilities of the Civilian Operations Commander, this function needs to be placed at an appropriate (i.e. higher) level within the EEAS hierarchy;

8. Believes that the 2008 discharge takes place at a crucial time, when a formal agreement on the discharge process for the new European External Action Service (EEAS) must be set out clearly to ensure credibility through full transparency, and calls on Council to ensure that it submits to Parliament, before the end of the 2008 discharge procedure, concrete, detailed and all-encompassing plans for the staffing, organisational and control structures of the EEAS, including EU military staff, the Situation Centre, the GSC´s Crisis Management and Planning Directorate, the Civilian ...[+++] Planning and Conduct Capability, as well as all staff in the General Secretariat working on Foreign and Security Policy, showing in particular the increase and allocation of staff and the budgetary implications provided for and to immediately take part in the negotiations with the budgetary authority on the basis of the proposals submitted;

My duties as executive assistant included staffing and managing the minister's office.

On your question about civilian staffing, I will get you an answer.

Gen. Lawson: You asked how much of the $2.4 billion is to support the troops and how much of it is for civilian staffing.

We have been very pleased by the response of the RCMP and their willingness to take corrective measures and to improve how they are doing their civilian staffing.