Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union

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The Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union heads the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union. The current Secretary General is Uwe Corsepius, who entered office on 26 June 2011.

With the creation of the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy in 1999, it was decided the Secretary-General would occupy that post simultaneously. However with the Lisbon Treaty the post of High Representative was merged with the External Relations Commissioners and separated from the Secretary-General of the Council, and at the meeting of the European Council of 19 November 2009 Pierre de Boissieu was appointed as the new secretary-general.^[1] On 26 June 2011, Uwe Corsepius took over from Pierre de Boissieu as the new secretary-general.^[2] The Council appointed Uwe Corsepius on 22 December 2009 for the period from 26 June 2011 to 30 June 2015.^[3]

As of 2010, the Secretary-General's basic pay is equal to that of a top-tier civil servant: €17,697.68 per month.^[4][5]

List of Secretaries-General

Name	Country	Start	End
Christian Calmes	Luxembourg	9 September 1952	14 June 1973
Nicolas Hommel	Luxembourg	1 July 1973	7 October 1980
Niels Ersbøll	Denmark	8 October 1980	31 August 1994
Jürgen Trumpf	Germany	1 September 1994	17 October 1999
Javier Solana	Spain	18 October 1999	1 December 2009
Pierre de Boissieu	France	1 December 2009	26 June 2011
Uwe Corsepius	Germany	26 June 2011

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