Review of the Staff Rules and Regulations - Proposed modifications to the 10th edition

In accordance with the provisions of CERN/2567, CERN/FC/4824, a complete review of CERN's Staff Rules and Regulations is currently taking place, with a twofold aim: - to adapt the Organization's statutory provisions to the results of the Five-Yearly Review; - to update the Staff Rules and Regulations, which were last reviewed in full in 1996, in other areas and, wherever possible, to make them more consistent and better suited to the Organization's needs. This document contains a first set of proposed amendments, i.e. to the Preamble as well as to the first two Chapters of the Staff Rules and Regulations. These proposed amendments were examined by the Standing Concertation Committee (SCC) on 13 and 20 September 2006 and by the Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum (TREF) on 4 and 5 October 2006.