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like 20 per cent of the overall staff. This means in the
case of the Commission some 4-5 Directors-General, some 18
Directors and some 50 Chefs de Divisions. We have begun
our assessment of the posts we should like to fill (and our
consideration of likely candidates to fill them). Much will
depend on the share out of responsibilities among the now
Commissioners; traditionally Directors-General do not work
to commissioners of their own nationality. The distribution
of the top posts (i.e. down to Director) will be the subject
of much hard bargaining as no doubt the other member countries
will be as eager as ourselves to obtain plum appointments and
to secure a satisfactory distribution of their own influence
throughout the Commission. Similar considerations apply,
albeit on a much smaller scale, to appointments within the
Council of Ministers' Secretariat and the Parliament'e
Secretariat. The top appointments will be made upon
lungoment
or soon after, but it may be a year or two before we buila up
to our full complement of posts all the way down the
hierarchy.
3. After enlargement the UK Delegation to the Europen
Communities will become its permanent delegation, and Hi
Ambassador will become the British Permanent Representative.
In other words the Delegation instead of being like any other
outside representation to the Communities will become m
integral part of the Council of Ministers apparatus.
the other Permanent Delegations it will carry out the neccsenry work at whatever level is appropriate on proposals by the
Commission until such time as they are ready for submission
to the Ministers themselves.
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