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Dear Ms Cann,

Following your request on 24/06/14 for rules for local and accredited assistants to MEPs, please see below:

Since 2009 accredited parliamentary assistants are persons chosen by one or more Members engaged by way of direct contract by the European Parliament. They are therefore subject to general considerations of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the EU (for ethics rules see TITLE II - RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF OFFICIALS). For more specific rules regarding accredited assistants please refer to the COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 160/2009 of 23 February 2009 amending the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities, see here: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexU...

Local assistants, including those working for Members elected in one of the Member States in which the European Parliament's
three places of work are located, are employed, in accordance with the implementing measures for the Statute for Members of the European Parliament, by Members of the European Parliament under contracts concluded under the applicable national law in the Member State in which they are elected.

For specific implementing measures for both groups of assistants, as laid down by EP Bureau, please find these documents attached.

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