User Agent Layer | UAL [Abbr.]

high altitude chart [ HI chart | enroute high altitude chart | high altitude enroute chart | high enroute chart | HE chart | high level enroute chart ]

top-end knowledge

water table [ water-table | water level | groundwater table | ground-water table | ground water table | level of saturation | phreatic surface | ground-water level | groundwater surface ]

Senior staff officer Senior Officer Development [ SSO Senior Officer Development ]

high-salaried employee | high salaried employee | high salaried

upgrading | upgrade

public folder tree (1) | public folder root (2) | top level hierarchy (3) [ TLH ]

flight levels, for flights at or above the lowest usable flight level or, where applicable, above the transition altitude.

‘higher education institution’ means any type of higher education institution recognised or considered as such in accordance with national law which, in accordance with national law or practice, offers recognised higher education degrees or other recognised tertiary level qualifications, whatever such establishments may be called, or any institution which, in accordance with national law or practice, offers vocational education or training at tertiary level.

97. Notes that the EEAS as a new organisation which represents a major European ambition needs to be endowed with sufficient means; in this regard, appropriations for staff remunerations in 2012 need to take into account the actual vacancy rates in the autumn of 2011; calls on the EEAS to exert restraint when it comes to the future creation of high-ranking posts; believes that one way of achieving this could be to replace progressively Seconded National Expert (SNE) posts by permanent posts for Member States' civil servants; notes that SNEs are not counted in the one third of EEAS staff at AD level; nevertheless, recalls the Council decision establishing the organisation and functioning of the EEAS which states that ‘by the date of exp ...[+++]iry of the contract of an SNE transferred to the EEAS under Article 7, the relevant function will be converted into a temporary agent post in cases where the function performed by the SNE corresponds to a function normally carried out by staff at AD level, provided that the necessary post is available under the establishment plan’; moreover, stresses that operational requirements for establishing the EEAS with its own information technology systems in a new building need to be funded;

92. Notes nevertheless that the EEAS as a new organisation which represents a major European ambition needs to be endowed with sufficient means; in this regard, appropriations for staff remunerations in 2012 need to take into account the actual vacancy rates in the autumn of 2011; calls on the EEAS to exert restraint when it comes to the future creation of high-ranking posts; believes that one way of achieving this could be to replace progressively Seconded National experts posts by permanent posts for Member States' civil servants; notes that Seconded National Experts (SNE) are not counted in the one third of EEAS staff at AD level; nevertheless, recalls the Council decision establishing the organisation and functioning of the EEAS wh ...[+++]ich states that "by the expiry of the contract of an SNE transferred to the EEAS under article 7, the function will be converted into a temporary agent post in cases where the function performed by the SNE corresponds to a function normally carried out by staff at AD level, provided that the necessary post is available under the establishment plan"; moreover, stresses that operational requirements for establishing the EEAS with its own information technology systems in a new building need to be funded;