Proposal for a Council Regulation laying down the weightings applicable from 1 January 2000 to the remuneration of officials of the European Communities serving in third countries
Date: 2000-06-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European official, exchange rate, pay, remuneration of work, third country

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 28.06.2000
COM(2000) 391 final

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

laying down the weightings applicable from 1 January 2000 to the remuneration of
officials of the European Communities serving in third countries

(presented by the Commission)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

I.

On 5 October 1987, by Regulation No 3019/87, the Staff Regulations were amended
by the addition of an Annex X laying down special and exceptional provisions,
including special arrangements for emoluments, applicable to officials of the
European Communities serving in third countries. Articles 11, 12 and 13 of Annex X
deal with the remuneration of officials posted in countries outside the European
Union. Remuneration is payable in Belgian francs in Belgium but there is also
provision for all or part of an official's remuneration to be paid in the currency of the
country of employment.

In that event, the portion of remuneration paid in local currency is subject to a
weighting. Article 13 of Annex X requires the Council of the European Union to
determine the weightings for third countries every six months.

This proposal relates to the adjustment of weightings applicable in third countries
with effect from 1 January 2000. The budgetary impact is negligible compared with
the total operating costs of the delegations.

II.

Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 2175/88 of 18 July 1988 laid down
the initial weightings applicable from 10 October 1987. Since then these weightings
have been adjusted by the Council every six months, most recently by Regulation
No 376/2000 of 17 February 2000 which took effect on 1 July 1999.

The remuneration system for staff serving in countries outside the Community is
based on equivalent purchasing power for Brussels and the various places of
employment.

Application of this principle is based on the calculation of economic parities by the
Statistical Office of the European Communities (SOEC). The weighting is the factor
obtained by dividing the economic parity by the exchange rate. This means that
implementation of a weightings system primarily involves calculating economic
parities between Brussels and the various places of employment.

The accounting exchange rates used are those for December 1999.

Table A shows for each place of employment the economic parity calculated by the
SOEC for January 2000,
the exchange rate used and the resulting weighting,
applicable from 1 January 2000.

Table B shows for each place of employment variations in percentage terms between
the figures in Table A and those for the previous half-year.

2

ANNEX

TABLE A

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

Economic

Exchange rates

Weightings

Parities

December 1999

January 2000

January 2000

(*)

(**)

Albania

(***) Algeria

Angola

Argentina

Australia

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belize

Benin

Bolivia

Bosnia-Herzogovina

Botswana

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

(***) Burundi

Cameroon

Canada

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

China

Colombia

Comoros

(***) Congo

171,8

0

136,04

0

4172000

5556000

1,0075

1,5808

49,8761

2,00532

2,0154

655,957

6,01597

1,95583

4,70101

1,98786

1,95583

655,957

0

655,957

1,4837

655,957

655,957

547,665

8,34224

1933,63

491,968

0

1,13

1,575

36,77

2,495

1,804

508

4,522

1,718

3,045

1,485

1,459

519,3

0

611,7

1,222

771,5

662,9

500,8

8,579

1411

528,3

0

3

126,3

0,0

75,1

112,2

99,6

73,7

124,4

89,5

77,4

75,2

87,8

64,8

74,7

74,6

79,2

0,0

93,3

82,4

117,6

101,1

91,4

102,8

73,0

107,4

0,0

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

Economic

Exchange rates

Weightings

Parities

December 1999

January 2000

January 2000

(*)

(**)

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

(***) Democratic Republic of Congo

Djibouti

Dominican Republic

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Ethiopia

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Fiji

(***) Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Ghana

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Hong Kong

Hungary

India

262,6

6,586

0,5346

28,55

0

233,5

12,17

2,911

613,2

5,342

11,18

5,549

6,791

1,409

0

784,4

9,082

0,8957

1129

5,918

1317

730,7

122,6

16,62

8,949

155,7

23,87

4

298,249

7,65493

0,577

36,04

0

179,089

16,0527

3,5021

655,957

8,38898

15,6466

8,38898

11,7351

2,02671

0

88,0

86,0

92,7

79,2

0,0

130,4

75,8

83,1

93,5

63,7

71,5

66,1

57,9

69,5

0,0

655,957

119,6

11,975

1,0077

3465

7,6686

1383,18

655,957

181,726

18,0882

7,86006

253,83

44,19

75,8

88,9

32,6

77,2

95,2

111,4

67,5

91,9

113,9

61,3

54,0

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

Economic

Exchange rates

Weightings

Parities

December 1999

January 2000

January 2000

(*)

(**)

Indonesia

Israel

Ivory Coast

Jamaica

Japan (Naka)

Japan (Tokyo)

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Latvia

Lebanon

(***) Left Bank - Gaza Strip

Lesotho

(***) Liberia

Lithuania

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Malta

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Morocco

Mozambique

Namibia

Netherlands Antilles

New Caledonia

7323,67

4,26459

655,957

40,9818

102,82

102,82

0,7312

1,0077

76,8001

0,601528

1614

0

6,19937

0

4,0308

6572

47,2458

655,957

0,41555

223,1

26,1

9,37161

10,2185

13116,6

6,19937

1,79371

119,332

68,7

114,3

100,3

113,3

189,9

198,7

82,9

98,5

84,5

75,9

105,4

0,0

57,4

0,0

70,2

54,1

28,7

91,2

88,8

71,1

76,0

74,3

90,3

94,8

68,7

101,4

114,9

5029

4,874

658,2

46,42

195,3

204,3

0,6061

0,9925

64,87

0,4566

1701

0

3,56

0

2,83

3556

13,58

598,4

0,3691

158,6

19,83

6,964

9,226

12436

4,257

1,819

137,1

5

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

Economic

Exchange rates

Weightings

Parities

December 1999

January 2000

January 2000

(*)

(**)

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

Norway

Pakistan

Papua New Guinea

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Republic of Cape Verde

Romania

Russia

(***) Rwanda

São Tomé and Príncipe

Senegal

(***) Sierra Leone

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

(***) Somalia

South Africa (Pretoria)

South Africa (The Cape)

South Korea

(***) Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Swaziland

12,3282

655,957

98,15

8,1125

53,3899

2,90318

3,50327

41,3765

4,335

110,265

18017,7

1,0077

0

7588,47

655,957

0

43,0976

196,885

5,13564

0

6,19937

6,19937

1170,92

0

2593,32

815,733

6,19937

87,8

79,0

85,9

132,6

56,5

70,1

93,0

65,8

64,3

86,7

56,1

123,3

0,0

83,6

82,5

0,0

61,5

83,0

94,0

0,0

66,3

70,0

116,2

0,0

34,9

90,7

52,6

10,82

518,2

84,27

10,76

30,19

2,035

3,258

27,22

2,789

95,64

10111

1,242

0

6347

540,9

0

26,52

163,4

4,826

0

4,113

4,341

1361

0

904,4

739,8

3,263

6

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

Economic

Exchange rates

Weightings

Parities

December 1999

January 2000

January 2000

(*)

(**)

Switzerland

Syria

Tanzania

Thailand

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Uganda

Ukraine

United States of America (New York)

United States of America (Washington)

Uruguay

Vanuatu

Venezuela

Viet Nam

Zambia

Zimbabwe

1,9

43,02

607,9

25,62

579,5

1,391

4,47

1,033

464627

1436

1,267

1,166

1,021

11,34

157,9

734,9

9243

1784

15,4

1,6029

46,3542

803,469

39,9691

655,957

1,52463

6,5122

1,2581

521014

1547,02

1,0077

1,0077

1,0077

11,7095

133,061

641,149

14453,5

2660,65

38,6198

118,5

92,8

75,7

64,1

88,3

91,2

68,6

82,1

89,2

92,8

125,7

115,7

101,3

96,8

118,7

114,6

63,9

67,1

39,9

€

(*)

1 = local currency (Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine = USD)

(**) Brussels = 100%

(***) Not available

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ANNEX

TABLE B

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

VARIATION (%)

January 2000 compared with July 1999

Economic

Exchange rates

Weightings

Albania

(***) Algeria

Angola

Argentina

Australia

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belize

Benin

Bolivia

Bosnia-Herzogovina

Botswana

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

(***) Burundi

Cameroon

Canada

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

China

Colombia

Comoros

parities

0,41

0

8,32

0

220,23

-179,06

3,81

1,48

1,89

3,83

3,84

0

0,68

0

4,56

-10,31

99,9

0

0

0

4,05

0

0

-6,68

3,83

-10,41

0

-3,67

1,09

-0,68

-1,77

-0,66

1,28

2,68

1,96

3,19

3,48

-99,92

0,74

0

0,34

0,25

-2,22

4,18

-3,47

-0,42

5,61

0,97

8

9,5

0,0

14,8

0,2

2,6

1,2

2,2

3,3

1,3

3,4

2,0

8,1

-6,2

-20,9

0,7

0,0

0,3

4,5

-2,2

4,2

-9,5

3,6

-4,4

1,0

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

VARIATION (%)

January 2000 compared with July 1999

Economic

Exchange rates

Weightings

parities

(***) Congo

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

(***) Democratic Republic of Congo

Djibouti

Dominican Republic

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Ethiopia

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Fiji

(***) Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Ghana

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Hong Kong

0

3,35

0,76

2,34

2,33

0

0,26

0,41

-0,34

1,09

-0,74

-0,18

0,54

19,14

0,79

0

1,13

-0,08

3,97

-1,91

18,01

-2,44

6,87

1,07

4,27

-2,61

9

0

-0,39

-0,82

0,21

4,11

0

3,84

3,53

3,71

0

2,37

0

-0,75

0

0,47

0

0

2,24

3,84

-35,53

-4,54

0,64

0

2,07

-2,75

3,84

0,0

3,0

-0,1

2,6

6,7

0,0

4,3

4,1

3,5

1,1

1,7

-0,2

-0,2

19,1

1,3

0,0

1,1

2,2

8,1

-27,6

12,9

-1,8

6,9

3,2

1,5

1,3

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

VARIATION (%)

January 2000 compared with July 1999

Economic

Exchange rates

Weightings

parities

Hungary

India

Indonesia

Israel

Ivory Coast

Jamaica

Japan (Naka)

Japan (Tokyo)

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Latvia

Lebanon

(***) Left Bank - Gaza Strip

Lesotho

(***) Liberia

Lithuania

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Malta

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Morocco

Mozambique

-1,48

1,23

14,99

1,13

0

-1,55

18,85

18,85

1,57

3,84

-5,26

4,52

-1,21

0

5,42

0

3,84

3,05

-1,99

0

0,54

-1,43

0,61

5,86

2,59

-1,04

-0,2

4,7

20,0

11,6

0,4

-5,7

21,2

21,2

1,0

-3,8

-2,2

5,0

-9,5

0,0

12,7

0,0

3,4

10,4

-5,1

-0,4

1,9

-0,6

3,3

8,0

3,1

1,3

1,24

3,42

2,03

10,3

0,44

-4,25

-1,66

-1,64

-0,61

-7,5

2,92

0,24

-8,45

0

6,55

0

-0,53

7,04

-3,21

-0,42

1,35

0,83

2,64

1,68

0,44

2,38

10

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

VARIATION (%)

January 2000 compared with July 1999

Economic

Exchange rates

Weightings

parities

Namibia

Netherlands Antilles

New Caledonia

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

Norway

Pakistan

Papua New Guinea

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Republic of Cape Verde

Romania

Russia

(***) Rwanda

São Tomé and Príncipe

Senegal

(***) Sierra Leone

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

(***) Somalia

South Africa (Pretoria)

South Africa (The Cape)

South Korea

5,42

3,84

0

-0,63

0

9,94

1,6

-8,65

-6,46

-0,55

-2,76

-3,83

0

-10,1

3,84

0

0,32

0

0

5,71

-1,45

-2,15

0

5,42

5,42

5,75

9,1

5,4

0,4

4,1

0,6

14,7

2,3

-18,6

1,6

2,3

0,7

-2,7

0,7

1,4

1,5

0,0

-0,6

1,1

0,0

8,8

-8,3

-1,9

0,0

8,2

8,9

8,6

3,17

1,34

0,44

4,74

0,6

3,31

0,65

-11,6

8,13

2,81

3,46

0,98

0,65

11,6

-2,44

0

-0,95

1,14

0

2,55

-7

0,17

0

2,31

2,96

2,33

11

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

VARIATION (%)

January 2000 compared with July 1999

Economic

Exchange rates

Weightings

parities

0

7,53

70,85

2,61

-0,16

1,77

-3,46

-0,27

-2,52

0,51

-0,56

1,77

30,72

5,98

-12,92

0,78

0,79

-6,59

0,83

8,66

-1,51

13,7

27,38

0

2,88

3,84

5,42

-0,55

3,84

-8,54

-2,06

0

3,81

1,03

0,16

-22,94

-3,53

3,84

3,84

3,84

0,05

2,17

-2,44

0,62

-0,02

5,02

0,0

10,7

77,7

8,5

-0,7

5,8

-11,1

-2,3

-2,5

4,5

0,5

1,9

6,3

2,4

-9,5

4,8

4,8

-6,5

3,1

6,1

-0,9

13,7

34,1

(***) Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Swaziland

Switzerland

Syria

Tanzania

Thailand

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Uganda

Ukraine

United States of America (New York)

United States of America (Washington)

Uruguay

Vanuatu

Venezuela

Viet Nam

Zambia

Zimbabwe

(***) Not available

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Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

laying down the weightings applicable from 1 January 2000 to the remuneration of
officials of the European Communities serving in third countries

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to the Staff Regulations of officials of the European Communities and the
conditions of employment of other servants of the Communities laid down by Regulation
(EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/681, as last amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom, ECSC)
No 2700/19992, and in particular the first paragraph of Article 13 of Annex X thereto,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Account should be taken of changes in the cost of living in countries outside the
Community and weightings applicable to remuneration payable in the currency of the
country of employment to officials serving in third countries should be determined
with effect from 1 January 2000;

Under Annex X of the Staff Regulations, the Council sets the weightings every six
months; it will accordingly have to set new weightings for the coming half-years;

The weightings to apply with effect from 1 January 2000 in respect of which payment
has been made on the basis of a previous regulation could lead to retrospective
adjustments to remuneration (positive or negative);

Provision should be made for back-payments in the event of an increase in
remuneration as a result of these weightings;

Provision should be made for the recovery of sums overpaid in the event of a
reduction in remuneration as a result of these weightings for the period between 1
January 2000 and the date of the Council decision setting the weightings to apply with
effect from 1 January 2000;

in order

to mirror

However,
the weightings applicable within the European
Community to remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants of the
European Communities, provision should be made for any such recovery to apply
solely to a period of no more than six months preceding the decision and for its effects

1

2

OJ L 56, 04.03.1968, p. 1.
OJ L 372, 21.12.1999, p. 1.

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to be spread over a period of no more than twelve months following the date of that
decision,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

With effect from 1 January 2000, the weightings applicable to remuneration payable in the
currency of the country of employment shall be as shown in the Annex.

The exchange rates for the calculation of such remuneration shall be those used for
implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the month preceding the date
referred to in the first paragraph.

Article 2

In accordance with the first paragraph of Article 13 of Annex X of the Staff Regulations, the
Council shall set weightings every six months. It shall accordingly set new weightings with
effect from 1 July 2000.

The institutions shall make back-payments in the event of an increase in remuneration as a
result of these weightings.

For the period between 1 January 2000 and the date of the Council decision setting the
weightings applicable with effect
the institutions shall make
retrospective downward adjustments to remuneration in the event of a reduction as a result of
these weightings.

from 1 January 2000,

Retrospective adjustments involving the recovery of sums overpaid shall, however, concern
only a period of no more than six months preceding the decision and this recovery shall be
spread over no more than twelve months from the date of that decision.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of
the European Communities.

Article 3

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels,

For the Council
The President

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ANNEX

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

Weightings

January 2000

Albania

(***) Algeria

Angola

Argentina

Australia

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belize

Benin

Bolivia

Bosnia-Herzogovina

Botswana

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

(***) Burundi

Cameroon

Canada

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

China

Colombia

Comoros

(***) Congo

Costa Rica

Croatia

126,3

0,0

75,1

112,2

99,6

73,7

124,4

89,5

77,4

75,2

87,8

64,8

74,7

74,6

79,2

0,0

93,3

82,4

117,6

101,1

91,4

102,8

73,0

107,4

0,0

88,0

86,0

15

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

Weightings

January 2000

Cyprus

Czech Republic

(***) Democratic Republic of Congo

Djibouti

Dominican Republic

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Ethiopia

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Fiji

(***) Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Ghana

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Hong Kong

Hungary

India

Indonesia

Israel

Ivory Coast

16

92,7

79,2

0,0

130,4

75,8

83,1

93,5

63,7

71,5

66,1

57,9

69,5

0,0

119,6

75,8

88,9

32,6

77,2

95,2

111,4

67,5

91,9

113,9

61,3

54,0

68,7

114,3

100,3

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

Weightings

January 2000

Jamaica

Japan (Naka)

Japan (Tokyo)

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Latvia

Lebanon

(***) Left Bank - Gaza Strip

Lesotho

(***) Liberia

Lithuania

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Malta

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Morocco

Mozambique

Namibia

Netherlands Antilles

New Caledonia

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

Norway

113,3

189,9

198,7

82,9

98,5

84,5

75,9

105,4

0,0

57,4

0,0

70,2

54,1

28,7

91,2

88,8

71,1

76,0

74,3

90,3

94,8

68,7

101,4

114,9

87,8

79,0

85,9

132,6

17

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

Weightings

January 2000

Pakistan

Papua New Guinea

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Republic of Cape Verde

Romania

Russia

(***) Rwanda

São Tomé and Príncipe

Senegal

(***) Sierra Leone

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

(***) Somalia

South Africa (Pretoria)

South Africa (The Cape)

South Korea

(***) Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Swaziland

Switzerland

Syria

Tanzania

Thailand

Togo

56,5

70,1

93,0

65,8

64,3

86,7

56,1

123,3

0,0

83,6

82,5

0,0

61,5

83,0

94,0

0,0

66,3

70,0

116,2

0,0

34,9

90,7

52,6

118,5

92,8

75,7

64,1

88,3

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Weightings

January 2000

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Uganda

Ukraine

United States of America (New York)

United States of America (Washington)

Uruguay

Vanuatu

Venezuela

Viet Nam

Zambia

Zimbabwe

(***) Not available

91,2

68,6

82,1

89,2

92,8

125,7

115,7

101,3

96,8

118,7

114,6

63,9

67,1

39,9

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT

1.

TITLE OF OPERATION

Proposal for a Council Regulation laying down the weightings applicable from 1
January 2000 to the remuneration of officials of the European Communities serving
in third countries

2.

BUDGET HEADING INVOLVED

A 6000

3.

LEGAL BASIS

4.

4.1

4.2

4.3

4.4

Articles 12 and 13 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations

FINANCIAL IMPACT

Provisional real expenditure
for 2000

Estimate of effect of
January 2000 weightings

Estimated expenditure for six
months [(2) x 6]

€
84 143 000
€
7 011 917 per month) (1)

(

€

€

+

+

76 781 (2)

460 686

Impact in relation to provisional
real expenditure [(2) : (1)]

+ 1,095%

This budgetary impact does not take account of the adjustment of the weightings laid
down each month by the European Commission.

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