EN    EN EN 
 
EN    EN  EUROPEAN COMMISSION 
Brussels, 13.12.2010 
SEC(2010) 1608 final 
  
COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT 
Addendum to October 2010 Eu rostat Report on  
the annual adjustment of remuneration and pens ions of EU officials in accordance with 
Articles 64 and 65 of the Staff Regulations and Annex XI thereto 
 
Follow-up to the Court of Justice Judgme nt of 24 November 2010 in Case C-40/10 and 
the correction of the French salary  data in the year to July 2009 
 
Reference Period: 
July 2009 – July 2010 
 
COM(2010)797 final 
 
EN 2   EN 1. C ONTEXT  
The Court of Justice of the European Un ion in the 24 November  2010 judgment (Case 
C-40/10) annulled the Council Regulatio n (EU, Euratom) No 1296/2009 of 23 
December 2009 adjusting the remuneration a nd pensions by 1.85%. In order to comply 
with the judgment, the Counc il is bound to adopt the Commission Proposal on the 2009 
salary and pension adjustment (COM (2009) 629) with effect from 1 July 2009. Thus, 
the remuneration and pensions of EU official s and other servants should be adjusted by 
3.7% 
In June 2010 France, due to an error in  the former calculation, communicated a 
corrected value of the Specific Indicator fo r the reference period 1 July 2008 – 1 July 
2009. As, in order to comply with the Court' s judgment, this correction could not be 
taken into account in the 2009 annual adjust ment, it needs to be accounted for in the 
2010 annual adjustment. 
Therefore, the 2010 adjustment of salaries of  EU officials must ta ke into account two 
specific elements:  
– the judgment of the Court of Justice   
– the correction of errors in the French basic data.  
Eurostat has drawn up the present Addendum to the Eurostat report of October 2010 to 
set out the impact of the inclusion of the French correction in the 2010 annual 
adjustment of the remuneration and pensi ons of EU officials and other servants. 
This addendum to the Eurostat report provides the information needed by the 
Commission to formulate an amended proposal  for a Council Regulation adjusting the 
remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants of the European Union and 
the correction coefficients applied th ereto with effect from 1 July 2010. 
For any further information concerning this  Addendum, please contact Eurostat in 
Luxembourg: 
Eurostat, Unit C6 - Secretariat 
BECH – A2/018  
Bâtiment Jean Monnet 
L-2920 Luxembourg 
Tel.: (352) 4301-35287 
Email: estat-a64ia65@ec.europa.eu  
 
EN 3   EN 2. A PPLIED METHODOLOGY  
Following the adoption of the 3.7% annual adjustment for 2009 in accordance with the 
Court ruling, in order to incorporate the imp act of the revision of the French data for 
2009 in the 2010 exercise, the 2010 FR Specific Indicator - and consequently the 2010 global Specific Indicator (SI) – needs to be ad justed. The adjusted gl obal SI will be used 
for the calculation of the pens ion contribution rate in 2011. 
2.1. Adjustment factor deriving from the revision of the French 2009 basic data:  
Corrected 
nominal SIOriginal 
nominal SI Factor
101.8 / 103.2 = 0.986
 
2.2. Adjustment of the 2010 nominal SI for France:  
Original 
nominal SI FactorAdjusted 
nominal SI
101.7 x 0.986 = 100.3 
2.3. Adjustment of the 2010 Global SI: 
Adjusted change in the ne t remuneration of central government civil servants
July 2009 - July 2010
CountryWeight ¹                 EU25=100 / 
EU8=100Nominal net 
specific indicatorConsumer 
price indicesReal net specific 
indicatorEffect on the 
total
(%) (%) (%) (%) (%)
BE 2.5 3.3 0.9 2.7 -1.8 -0.1
DE 18.9 24.8 -4.1 0.8 -4.9 -1.2
ES 9.6 12.6 -1.3 1.5 -2.8 -0.3
FR (*)13.9 18.2 0.3 1.7 -1.4 -0.3
IT 12.3 16.1 0.6 1.5 -0.9 -0.1
LU 0.3 0.4 1.9 2.3 -0.4 0.0
NL 4.3 5.6 0.7 0.2 0.5 0.0
UK 14.4 18.9 1.9 3.2 -1.3 -0.2
Total 76.2 100.0 -0.6 1.7 -2.2 -2.2
¹ Basis: GDP expressed in PPP, 2009
* Adjusted values of the French specific indicator taking into account the effect of the error in French 2009 salary data  
 
EN 4   EN 3. S ALARY ADJUSTMENT RESULTING FROM THE INCLUSION OF THE CORRECTION OF THE 
FRENCH BASIC DATA  
The French figures for national officials' salaries were revi sed in June 2010, within the 
6-month period foreseen in the manual for possi ble retroactive correct ion of salaries to 
take place. 
For 2010, the Commission's proposed salary  increase (0.4%) was based on correct 
French figures. The 2010 underlying figures  have been validated and accepted as 
correct by the Member States concerned. Revision of the measured increase for the 
reference period 1 July 2009 – 1 July 2010 fr om 0.4% to 0.1% would entail imputing 
correct and previously validated basic data. 
Therefore, as explained above, the French Specific Indicator a nd the global Specific 
Indicator (SI) need to be ad justed in order to account fo r the impact of the French 
revision on the 2010 salary adjustment exercise. 
The amount of the annual adjustment is obtained by multiplying the adjusted Global 
Specific Indicator (SI) of -2.2% and the change  in the Brussels Inte rnational Index (BII) 
of 2.4%. These expressed in inde x form are 97.8 and 102.4 respectively. 
102.4 x 97.8
⎯ 100 = 0.1%
100⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ ⎯Salary change
 
This corresponds to adjusting the 2010 net sa lary increase at an aggregate level by a 
factor which provides an ex- post correction to th e 2009 adjustment for the FR effect of 
0.997. 
100.4 x 0.997 = 100.1 or 0.1%