Except when the Commission decides otherwise, for the sake of the well functioning of its services, in an order approved by the House of Representatives, the staff of the secretariat is subordinate to the legal and statutory provisions applicable to full government officials. § 2. The personnel in service at the time the law of 26 February 2003 amending the law of 8 December 1992 on privacy protection in relation to the processing of personal data and the law of 15 January 1990 concerning the establishment and organisation of a Crossroads Bank of the social security to adjust the statute of the Commission for the protection of privacy and to extend its powers, comes into force, hold their position and their statute until the measures, taken in implementation of § 1, are approved. If the officials, as a result of the directions given in accordance with the aforesaid measures, aren’t confirmed in their position, they return to the services of the Federal Public Service Justice, holding the statute applicable to those services. Article 36 The chairman shall be entitled to receive an indemnity equal to the salary supplement accorded to an examining magistrate with nine years seniority in a tribunal having jurisdiction over a population of at least 500,000 inhabitants. The substitute chairman, the substitute vice-chairman and the full and substitute members shall be entitled to receive an attendance fee for an amount of 223,18 EUR (index 1,2682). This figure is linked to the evolution of the price index of the consumption prices. They shall be entitled to receive indemnities for travel and accommodation expenses in accordance with the provisions applying to the staff members of the Ministries. Those who do not belong to the administration or of whom no ranking of their grade is determined shall be assimilated to civil servants of grade 13. The chairman shall be assimilated to a civil servant of grade 17. The experts of whom the assistance is requested for by the Commission or who assist the members in their investigations on the spot, may be indemnified according to the conditions laid down by the Minister of Justice in consultation with the ministers competent for civil service and the budget. The indemnity referred to in the first section shall be linked to the mobility regulations applicable to the salary of the civil servants on active duty. Chapter VII bis - Sectoral committees Article 36bis Within the Commission for the protection of privacy a sectoral committee for the federal government is established, within the meaning of article 31bis. The Federal Public Service Information and Communication Technology is looked upon as the supervising organization, referred to in article 31bis, of the sectoral committee for the federal government. The King determines the conditions and further rules applicable to the three external members of the sectoral committee for the federal government, in an order enacted after consultation with the Council of Ministers. Except for the cases determined by the King, every electronic notification of personal data by a federal public service or a public institution with legal personality that comes under the federal government, requires a fundamental authorization of this sectoral committee, unless 23