The Permanent Representations of all Member States shall be kept informed on a yearly basis about the number of experts in the GSC. This information shall include also:
(a)
the nationalities of experts seconded from an IGO as set out in the second subparagraph of Article 2(4);
(b)
any exceptions to the selection procedure in accordance with Article 3(4);
(c)
the assignment of all experts;
(d)
any suspension and early termination of experts' secondment set out in Articles 9 and 10;
(e)
the annual update of SNEs' allowances in accordance with Article 19.
All powers conferred to the GSC under this Decision shall be exercised by the Secretary-General of the Council. The Secretary-General of the Council is authorised to delegate any or all of those powers to the Director-General for Administration of the GSC.
Council Decision 2007/829/EC is hereby repealed. However, Article 2(1) and Articles 15 to 19 thereof shall remain applicable to all secondments which are ongoing at the time of entry into force of this Decision, without prejudice to Article 34.
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
It shall apply from the first day of the month following its entry into force to each new secondment or renewal or extension of secondment.
