Where the performance of the agreement involves the assignment to the associated body of full-time teaching and hospital staff of the university hospital centre, this assignment may relate to all or part of the university or hospital activity of the persons concerned.
When the assignment covers all of the hospital or university activity of the person concerned, the latter is placed at the disposal of the organisation, for a renewable period of at least one year and at most five years, by order of the ministers responsible for higher education and health. The seniority acquired in this situation is taken into account, depending on the case, for the calculation of the university remuneration as well as for the acquisition of promotion and retirement rights, or for the calculation of hospital emoluments if the person concerned is not head of department. The person concerned is replaced in his hospital and university duties, as the case may be, as soon as his assignment becomes effective.
When the assignment comes to an end, he is reassigned either to his post if it is vacant, or to the first post for which there is a vacancy in the training or research unit concerned, or in the university hospital centre and which corresponds to his grade and discipline. He may request reassignment before the end of the period for which he has been seconded to the institution or body. The decision to be taken on this request shall take account of the requirements of the service and existing vacancies. The person concerned may be transferred in accordance with the conditions laid down in his Staff Regulations.
When the assignment concerns only a fraction of the hospital or university activity of the person concerned, it is decided jointly by the director of the medical or pharmaceutical training and research unit and the director of the university hospital centre.