Translation of "Tableau d'ancienneté " (French → English) :

With a view to ensuring that all members of the EEAS staff are treated equally, regardless of whether they come from the European Union's administration or the national diplomatic services of the Member States, in particular as regards eligibility to assume all positions and responsibilities within the EEAS under equivalent conditions, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission, as appointing authority, shall draw up a table of equivalence between EU administrative grades, in particular at AD level, and the diplomatic seniority titles in order to ensure that, at the t ...[+++]ime of their recruitment, staff originating from Member States are graded in a way which is commensurate with average seniority for that specific grade.

2. On a transitional basis, the basic salary within the meaning of Articles 77 and 78 of the Staff Regulations and of Annex VIII shall be determined by applying the corresponding multiplication factor laid down in Article 7 to the salary which corresponds to the recipient's grading taken into account to determine entitlement to retirement pension or invalidity benefit, in accordance with the table in Article 66 of the Staff Regulations.

Officials aged between 30 and 49 years on 1 May 2004 shall become entitled to a retirement pension at the age shown in the table below:

The grade, remuneration, allowances, retirement pension and any other benefit in lieu of remuneration will be determined by the budgetary authority in the establishment plan and in the annual budgetary procedure, in accordance with Article 43 of Regulation 45/2001.