2006/681/EC: Commission Decision of 10 October 2006 adjusting the weightings applicable from 1 August , 1 September , 1 October , 1 November and 1 December 2005 and from 1 January 2006 to the remuneration of officials, temporary staff and contract staff of the European Communities serving in third countries
Date: 2006-10-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European official, pay, regulations for civil servants, servant (EU), third country, wage determination

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 10 October 2006

adjusting the weightings applicable from 1 August, 1 September, 1 October, 1 November and
1 December 2005 and from 1 January 2006 to the remuneration of officials, temporary staff and
contract staff of the European Communities serving in third countries

(2006/681/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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 259/68 (1), as last amended by Regu-
lation (EC, Euratom) No 2104/2005 (2), and in particular the
second paragraph of Article 13 of Annex X thereto,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 13 of Annex X
to the Staff Regulations, the weightings to be applied
from 1 July 2005 to the remuneration of officials,
the European
temporary staff and contract
Communities serving in third countries payable in the
their country of employment were laid
currency of
down by Council Regulation (EC,
Euratom) No
351/2006 (3).

staff of

Some of
these weightings need to be adjusted in
accordance with the second paragraph of Article 13 of
Annex X to the Staff Regulations, with effect from 1
August, 1 September, 1 October, 1 November and 1
December 2005 and from 1 January 2006, since the
in
statistics available to the Commission show that

certain third countries
the variation in the cost of
living measured on the basis of the weighting and the
corresponding exchange rate has exceeded 5 % since
weightings were last laid down or adjusted,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Sole Article

With effect from 1 August, 1 September, 1 October, 1 No-
vember and 1 December 2005 and from 1 January 2006 the
weightings applied to the remuneration of officials, temporary
staff and contract staff of the European Communities serving in
the country of
third countries, payable in the currency of
employment, shall be adjusted as shown in the Annex hereto.

The exchange rates used for the calculation of this remuneration
shall be established in accordance with the rules for the imple-
mentation of the Financial Regulation and correspond to the
dates referred to in the first paragraph.

Done at Brussels, 10 October 2006.

For the Commission

Benita FERRERO-WALDNER
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 56, 4.3.1968, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 337, 22.12.2005, p. 7.
(3) OJ L 59, 1.3.2006, p. 1.

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ANNEX

Place of employment

Weightings August 2005

Guyana

Niger

Romania

Yemen

Zimbabwe

Guinea

Sierra Leone

Zimbabwe

Barbados

Lesotho

Nigeria

Zimbabwe

60,6

97,1

60,9

72,5

56,4

Place of employment

Weightings September 2005

61,6

78,2

43,5

Place of employment

Weightings October 2005

134,5

74,0

93,2

55,2

Place of employment

Weightings November 2005

Benin

Cambodia

Dominican Republic

Gambia

Guinea

Indonesia

Nicaragua

Senegal

Serbia and Montenegro

97,5

70,6

78,1

56,6

63,7

82,8

70,0

82,2

65,0

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Place of employment

Weightings November 2005

Turkey

Ukraine

Vietnam

Zimbabwe

Costa Rica

Haiti

Jamaica

Mozambique

Syria

Zimbabwe

Argentina

Ethiopia

Jordan

Romania

Sudan

Syria

Venezuela

Zambia

Zimbabwe

97,9

107,8

56,7

28,9

Place of employment

Weightings December 2005

75,7

102,0

96,1

69,4

70,4

32,5

Place of employment

Weightings January 2006

64,4

86,0

82,1

61,1

50,1

72,2

70,6

82,6

34,0