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1. A member of the establishment or local staff paid from the research and investment appropriations who is in service on the date on which this Regulation comes into force shall be offered a contract by the authority referred to in the first paragraph of Article 6 of the conditions of employment of other servants of the European Communities in accordance with Title II of these conditions of employment. The contract shall take effect on the said date.

2. The person concerned shall be assigned to a post in accordance with Article 10 of the conditions of employment. He shall receive a basic salary such as will ensure that his net remuneration is at least equal to the net remuneration which he received before the new contract was concluded. For the purpose of implementing this Chapter the remuneration to which the person concerned would be entitled under the former conditions of employment shall be one-twelfth of his total annual remuneration, less Community tax and his contributions to national pension and social security schemes.

The family allowances which are taken into account for the purpose of implementing the above provisions shall be those which under the former conditions of remuneration the servant would have received for the first month following the conclusion of the new contract if his situation as to dependants had been the same at that time as during the month in question.

3. Establishment and local staff engaged pursuant to this Article as temporary staff within the meaning of Article 2 (d) of the conditions of employment of other servants of the European Communities shall not be required to serve the probationary period referred to in Article 14 of the said conditions of employment.

4. In the case of establishment and local staff who are in service on the date on which this Regulation comes into force, calculation of the length of service referred to in the first paragraph of Article 77 of the Staff Regulations shall take account of the number of years of service that staff engaged pursuant to paragraph 1 above have completed as establishment or local staff.

However, only the number of years of service completed by staff as temporary staff within the meaning of Article 2 (d) shall be taken into account for the purpose of calculating the years of pensionable service within the meaning of Article 2 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations.

5. The contract of any member of establishment or local staff who does not accept the offer made under paragraph 1 within six months shall be terminated. In this event the person in question shall be entitled to the period of notice specified in Article 98 (2) of the conditions of employment of other servants of the European Communities or in the relevant Article of the rules governing the conditions of employment of local staff. CHAPTER III Final provisions