Proposal for a Council Regulation laying down the weightings applicable from 1 July 2006 to the remuneration of officials, temporary staff and contract staff of the European Communities serving in third countries and of certain officials remaining in post in the two new Member States for a maximum period of nineteen months after accession
Date: 2006-12-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, European official, Romania, pay, regulations for civil servants, servant (EU), third country

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 

Brussels, 14.12.2006 
COM(2006) 800 final 

Proposal for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION 

laying down the weightings applicable from 1 July 2006 to the remuneration of officials, 
temporary staff and contract staff of the European Communities serving in third 
countries and of certain officials remaining in post in the two new Member States for a 
maximum period of nineteen months after accession 

(presented by the Commission) 

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

Regulation  (Euratom,  ECSC,  EEC)  No  3019/87  of  5  October  1987  amended  the  Staff 
Regulations by adding an Annex X laying down special and exceptional provisions 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  euros  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 paid in local currency is subject to a weighting. 

The first paragraph of Article 13 of Annex X requires the Council to determine the weightings 
for third countries every six months. 

Council Regulation (ECSC, EEC, Euratom) No 2175/88 of 18 July 1988 laid down the initial 
weightings applicable from 10 October 1987. 

Since the new Staff Regulations entered into force on 1 May 2004 (Regulation (EC, Euratom) 
No 723/2004 of 22 March 2004), this system also applies to contract staff. 

The first paragraph of Article 13 of Annex X to the new Staff Regulations now requires the 
Council to set the weightings applicable in third countries annually. 

The  most  recent  weightings  were  laid  down  by  the  Council  in  Regulation  (EC,  Euratom) 
No 351/2006 of 27 February 2006, which took effect on 1 July 2005. 

Article 27(4) of the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the two new Member States 
created a legal basis for extending the application of Annex X to the Staff Regulations (rules 
applicable to staff working outside the Community) to officials remaining in post in the new 
Member States for a maximum period of nineteen months after accession. Weightings should 
therefore be set for these new Member States not only in accordance with Annex XI but also 
in accordance with Annex X to the Staff Regulations. 

This  proposal  concerns  the  adjustment  of  weightings  applicable  from  1  July  2006  to  the 
remuneration  of  officials,  temporary  staff  and  contract  staff  of  the  European  Communities 
serving in third countries. 

The budgetary impact is negligible compared with the total operating costs of the delegations. 

The  remuneration  system  for  staff  serving  in  countries  outside  the  Community  is  based  on 
purchasing  power  parity  of  remuneration  paid  in  local  currency  compared  with  that  paid  in 
Brussels. 

To apply this principle Eurostat calculates the economic parities. The weighting is the factor 
obtained  by  dividing  the  economic  parity  by  the  exchange  rate.  This  means  that 
implementation  of  the  weighting  system  primarily  involves  calculating  economic  parities 
between Brussels and other places of employment. 

The  exchange  rates  used  are  established  in  accordance  with  the  detailed  rules  for  the 
implementation of the Financial Regulation and correspond to the date of application of the 
weightings. 

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Table  A  sets  out  the  new  economic  parities,  the  corresponding  exchange  rates  and  the 
resulting weightings as at 1 July 2006 for all places of employment. 

Table B shows the variation in percentage terms between the figures in Table A and those of 
July 2005 for all places of employment. 

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ANNEX TO THE EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT 

TABLE A 

Economic parities 
July 2006 

Exchange rate 

Weighting 

July 2006 

July 2006 

(*) 

(**) 

(***)  Afghanistan 
Albania 
Algeria 
Angola 
Argentina 
Armenia 
Australia 
Bangladesh 
Barbados 
Benin 
Bolivia 
Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Botswana 
Brazil 
Bulgaria 
Burkina Faso 

(***)  Burundi 

Cambodia 
Cameroon 
Canada 
Cape Verde 
Central African Republic 
Chad 
Chile 
China 
Colombia 
Congo 
Costa Rica 
Côte d'Ivoire 
Croatia 

(*)  Cuba 

(*) 

(*) 

Democratic Republic of Congo 
Djibouti 
Dominican Republic 
Ecuador 
Egypt 
El Salvador 
Eritrea 
Ethiopia 
Fiji 

EN 

0 

122,795 

92,5334 

101,686 

3,87270 

523,180 

1,71800 

87,2663 

2,49327 

655,957 

10,0357 

1,95583 

7,75194 

2,81039 

1,95580 

655,957 

0 

5193,00 

655,957 

1,40250 

110,265 

655,957 

655,957 

687,680 

10,0233 

3230,00 

655,957 

641,535 

655,957 

7,24500 

1,25290 

561,716 

222,667 

40,0738 

1,25290 

7,29045 

1,25290 

19,6970 

10,9890 

2,21459 

0 

82,7 

84,5 

113,5 

56,4 

105,7 

99,1 

43,7 

125,7 

92,3 

48,4 

77,7 

62,1 

76,2 

76,4 

89,7 

0 

70,4 

110,1 

90,6 

77,4 

120,1 

131,2 

76,6 

76,7 

63,2 

130,4 

69,1 

109,4 

105,8 

97,1 

132,4 

96,8 

71,9 

70,8 

51,0 

86,4 

49,4 

85,7 

71,3 

0 

101,6 

78,15 

115,4 

2,185 

553,1 

1,703 

38,13 

3,134 

605,3 

4,861 

1,519 

4,812 

2,142 

1,494 

588,7 

0 

3658 

721,9 

1,270 

85,30 

787,7 

860,5 

526,7 

7,683 

2041 

855,3 

443,6 

717,8 

7,663 

1,216 

743,5 

215,6 

28,81 

0,887 

3,716 

1,083 

9,721 

9,417 

1,580 

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PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT 

Economic parities 
July 2006 

Exchange rate 

Weighting 

July 2006 

July 2006 

(*) 

(**) 

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 
Gabon 
Gambia 
Georgia 
Ghana 
Guatemala 
Guinea 
Guinea-Bissau 
Guyana 
Haiti 
Honduras 
Hong Kong 
India 
Indonesia (Banda Aceh) 
Indonesia (Jakarta) 
Iraq 
Israel 
Jamaica 
Japan (Naka) 
Japan (Tokyo) 
Jordan 
Kazakhstan (Almaty) 
(***)  Kazakhstan (Astana) 

(***) 

(***) 

Kenya 
Kyrgyzstan 
Laos 
Lebanon 
Lesotho 
(***)  Liberia 

Madagascar 
Malawi 
Malaysia 
Mali 
Mauritania 
Mauritius 
Mexico 
Moldavia 

(***)  Montenegro 
Morocco 
Mozambique 
Namibia 
Nepal 
New Caledonia 
New Zealand 

EN 

61,3321 

655,957 

35,1000 

2,22390 

11465,0 

9,53244 

6436,00 

655,957 

253,186 

51,6861 

23,7567 

9,73260 

57,8000 

0 

11734,7 

0 

5,62610 

82,0104 

146,000 

146,000 

0,88831 

150,250 

0 

93,6852 

50,3979 

12808,0 

1888,75 

9,17590 

0 

2749,04 

173,817 

4,61900 

655,957 

337,460 

38,8135 

14,2898 

16,6648 

0 

11,0440 

32066,2 

9,17590 

93,0900 

119,332 

2,10930 

69,7 

116,6 

55,8 

95,1 

79,9 

80,6 

56,4 

100,7 

60,6 

109,5 

74,9 

101,3 

45,3 

0 

83,9 

0 

109,6 

91,3 

113,7 

119,9 

72,3 

125,2 

0 

77,8 

80,3 

71,3 

90,8 

61,8 

0 

72,3 

70,4 

74,8 

91,2 

67,7 

70,7 

70,2 

52,6 

0 

86,8 

69,3 

72,8 

68,8 

134,5 

89,0 

42,75 

765,0 

19,57 

2,115 

9161 

7,687 

3630 

660,3 

153,5 

56,62 

17,80 

9,859 

26,18 

0 

9842 

0 

6,169 

74,85 

166,0 

175,1 

0,642 

188,1 

0 

72,91 

40,48 

9127 

1715 

5,674 

0 

1988 

122,3 

3,456 

598,2 

228,6 

27,45 

10,03 

8,770 

0 

9,591 

22208 

6,679 

64,04 

160,5 

1,878 

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PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT 

Economic parities 
July 2006 

Exchange rate 

Weighting 

July 2006 

July 2006 

(*) 

(**) 

(***) 

(***) 

Nicaragua 
Niger 
Nigeria 
Norway 
Pakistan 
Panama 
Papua New Guinea 
Paraguay 
Peru 
Philippines 
Romania 
Russia 
Rwanda 
Saudi-Arabia 
Senegal 
Serbia 
Sierra Leone 
Singapore 
Solomon Islands 
Somalia 
South Africa 
South Korea 
Sri Lanka 
Sudan 
Suriname 
Swaziland 
Switzerland 
Syria 
Taiwan 
Tajikistan 
Tanzania 
Thailand 
(***)  Timor Leste 
Togo 
Trinidad and Tobago 
Tunisia 
Turkey 
Uganda 
Ukraine 
United States (New York) 
United States (Washington) 
Uruguay 
Vanuatu 
Venezuela 

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22,0636 

655,957 

158,464 

7,88250 

74,8542 

0 

3,88500 

6942,50 

4,09510 

67,0930 

3,58630 

33,9480 

693,992 

4,82250 

655,957 

86,4900 

3733,32 

2,00310 

9,10305 

0 

9,17590 

1203,54 

129,990 

273,215 

3,48500 

9,17590 

1,56440 

63,9550 

40,8600 

4,11014 

1581,25 

48,1990 

0 

655,957 

7,85410 

1,67920 

2,01150 

2345,10 

6,31351 

1,25290 

1,25290 

29,9443 

142,125 

2693,74 

60,7 

89,3 

94,7 

131,7 

52,2 

0 

75,6 

70,8 

78,4 

60,2 

62,7 

120,7 

87,1 

88,8 

80,7 

61,1 

75,1 

103,4 

88,7 

0 

59,9 

112,4 

55,4 

52,1 

51,9 

62,6 

116,3 

65,5 

89,9 

70,2 

58,8 

60,3 

0 

92,4 

70,4 

71,8 

83,7 

55,5 

104,6 

104,8 

100,5 

72,9 

114,5 

60,9 

13,39 

585,7 

150,0 

10,38 

39,07 

0 

2,937 

4917 

3,209 

40,36 

2,250 

40,96 

604,5 

4,281 

529,1 

52,81 

2805 

2,072 

8,078 

0 

5,495 

1353 

72,04 

142,4 

1,810 

5,745 

1,820 

41,88 

36,74 

2,886 

930,1 

29,07 

0 

605,8 

5,532 

1,206 

1,683 

1302 

6,607 

1,313 

1,259 

21,84 

162,7 

1640 

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PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT 

Economic parities 
July 2006 

Exchange rate 

Weighting 

July 2006 

July 2006 

(*) 

(**) 

Vietnam 
West Bank - Gaza Strip 
Yemen 
Zambia 
Zimbabwe 

10907 

5,215 

168,7 

3018 

59735 

20119,4 

5,62610 

247,249 

4354,87 

126496 

54,2 

92,7 

68,2 

69,3 

47,2 

(*) EUR 1 = local currency (Cuba, El Salvador, Ecuador) = USD). 
(**) Brussels = 100%. 
(***) Not available. 

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TABLE B 

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT 

% CHANGE 
July 2006 against July 2005 
Exchange rate 

Economic parities

Weighting 

Afghanistan 
Albania 
Algeria 
(*)  Angola 

Argentina 
Armenia 
Australia 
Bangladesh 
Barbados 
Benin 
Bolivia 
Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Botswana 
Brazil 
Bulgaria 
Burkina Faso 
Burundi 
Cambodia 
Cameroon 
Canada 
Cape Verde 
Central African Republic 
Chad 
Chile 
China 
Colombia 
Congo 
Costa Rica 
Côte d'Ivoire 
Croatia 
Cuba 

(*)  Democratic Republic of Congo 

Djibouti 
Dominican Republic 
Ecuador 
Egypt 
El Salvador 
Eritrea 
Ethiopia 
Fiji 
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 
Gabon 

- 

-5,0 

-1,6 

- 

-1,2 

-1,6 

2,2 

-8,3 

2,6 

-0,6 

-4,7 

5,9 

14,3 

-3,1 

3,3 

2,4 

- 

8,5 

8,6 

1,0 

4,2 

2,1 

0,5 

-5,3 

-1,9 

2,4 

0,5 

6,5 

-1,6 

3,0 

8,5 

- 

-0,5 

-2,5 

4,4 

-7,2 

9,9 

0,6 

10,3 

-1,1 

-0,4 

0,5 

- 

1,0 

-4,0 

- 

-10,9 

2,3 

-8,5 

-11,8 

-3,9 

0,0 

-2,8 

0,0 

-15,5 

2,4 

0,0 

0,0 

- 

-4,2 

0,0 

5,6 

0,0 

0,0 

0,0 

1,9 

-0,5 

-15,5 

0,0 

-11,5 

0,0 

0,9 

-3,9 

- 

-3,9 

-15,0 

-3,9 

-3,5 

-3,9 

-4,0 

-4,3 

-8,6 

0,1 

0,0 

- 

-4,1 

-5,4 

-10,3 

-10,9 

0,8 

-5,9 

-18,0 

-1,3 

-0,5 

-7,3 

5,9 

-1,1 

-0,8 

3,4 

2,3 

- 

4,1 

8,7 

7,1 

4,3 

2,1 

0,5 

-3,5 

-2,3 

-11,4 

0,5 

-4,6 

-1,6 

3,9 

4,4 

-4,5 

-4,3 

-15,2 

0,4 

-10,4 

5,8 

-3,1 

5,7 

-9,1 

-0,3 

0,4 

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PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT 

% CHANGE 
July 2006 against July 2005 
Exchange rate 

Economic parities

Weighting 

Gambia 
Georgia 
Ghana 
Guatemala 
Guinea 
Guinea-Bissau 
Guyana 
Haiti 
Honduras 
Hong Kong 
India 
Indonesia (Banda Aceh) 
Indonesia (Jakarta) 
Iraq 
Israel 
Jamaica 
Japan (Naka) 
Japan (Tokyo) 
Jordan 
Kazakhstan (Almaty) 
Kazakhstan (Astana) 
Kenya 
Kyrgyzstan 
Laos 
Lebanon 
Lesotho 
Liberia 
Madagascar 
Malawi 
Malaysia 
Mali 
Mauritania 
Mauritius 
Mexico 
Moldavia 
Montenegro 
Morocco 
Mozambique 
Namibia 
Nepal 
New Caledonia 
New Zealand 
Nicaragua 
Niger 

12,7 

0,8 

3,8 

-1,2 

31,0 

-27,7 

10,6 

13,4 

2,8 

20,2 

-3,9 

- 

6,8 

- 

23,2 

9,7 

-0,7 

-1,0 

-1,1 

2,1 

- 

-10,1 

-3,1 

-6,5 

-10,7 

-5,8 

- 

11,2 

7,5 

2,0 

-7,7 

-0,6 

4,2 

-0,9 

- 

- 

1,7 

0,8 

3,6 

2,8 

11,7 

2,2 

-2,0 

-2,7 

-3,4 

-1,8 

-3,1 

-4,0 

-39,0 

0,0 

-10,5 

-4,3 

-4,1 

-3,9 

-9,4 

- 

-0,2 

- 

-2,8 

-10,0 

-9,7 

-9,7 

-3,9 

8,0 

- 

-1,9 

-2,1 

2,0 

-3,9 

-13,2 

- 

-10,5 

-16,7 

-0,8 

0,0 

-5,2 

-10,5 

-10,0 

- 

- 

-0,8 

-5,8 

-13,2 

-8,8 

0,0 

-22,5 

-9,0 

0,0 

9,2 

-0,9 

0,6 

-5,1 

-5,7 

-27,7 

0,0 

8,6 

-1,3 

15,6 

-12,2 

- 

6,6 

- 

19,8 

-0,2 

-9,5 

-9,8 

-4,9 

11,0 

- 

-11,8 

-5,1 

-4,6 

-14,1 

-16,8 

- 

0,6 

-7,9 

1,2 

-7,7 

-5,6 

-5,7 

-9,9 

- 

- 

0,8 

-4,7 

-8,4 

-5,4 

11,7 

-16,6 

-10,1 

-2,7 

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PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT 

% CHANGE 
July 2006 against July 2005 
Exchange rate 

Economic parities

Weighting 

Nigeria 
Norway 
Pakistan 
Panama 
Papua New Guinea 
Paraguay 
Peru 
Philippines 
Romania 
Russia 
Rwanda 
Saudi-Arabia 
Senegal 
Serbia 
Sierra Leone 
Singapore 
Solomon Islands 
Somalia 
South Africa 
South Korea 
Sri Lanka 
Sudan 
Suriname 
Swaziland 
Switzerland 
Syria 
Taiwan 
Tajikistan 
Tanzania 
Thailand 
Timor Leste 
Togo 
Trinidad and Tobago 
Tunisia 
Turkey 
Uganda 
Ukraine 
United States (New York) 
United States (Washington) 
Uruguay 
Vanuatu 
Venezuela 
Vietnam 
West Bank - Gaza Strip 

8,6 

-0,8 

4,8 

- 

0,5 

2,9 

-5,4 

16,3 

10,8 

7,7 

1,8 

8,0 

3,1 

3,4 

12,3 

4,5 

3,4 

- 

1,8 

0,6 

-2,7 

8,3 

-1,3 

1,7 

-0,9 

-4,6 

0,2 

5,3 

9,9 

-5,6 

- 

-2,7 

1,2 

3,8 

11,0 

-19,0 

7,2 

2,0 

0,7 

-1,4 

-0,6 

-3,1 

7,5 

4,3 

1,2 

0,2 

-6,3 

- 

-2,7 

4,0 

-4,4 

0,6 

0,5 

1,8 

-2,5 

-5,1 

0,0 

-4,5 

-7,7 

1,4 

0,5 

- 

-13,2 

3,2 

-6,8 

9,9 

-4,0 

-13,2 

-1,1 

1,7 

-7,3 

-9,4 

-15,2 

3,2 

- 

0,0 

-6,1 

-5,0 

-23,7 

-10,3 

-3,5 

-3,9 

-3,9 

-1,2 

-7,8 

4,6 

-4,5 

-2,8 

10,0 

-0,6 

-1,3 

- 

-2,2 

7,3 

-9,4 

17,1 

11,4 

9,7 

-0,7 

2,8 

3,2 

-1,0 

4,3 

5,9 

3,9 

- 

-10,1 

3,9 

-8,9 

20,0 

-5,1 

-10,2 

-2,0 

-3,0 

-6,5 

-3,8 

-4,7 

-2,4 

- 

-2,7 

-4,6 

-1,1 

-10,2 

-26,6 

3,5 

-1,9 

-3,1 

-2,5 

-7,8 

1,7 

2,8 

1,5 

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Yemen 
Zambia 
Zimbabwe 

(*) Switch from USD to local currency. 

% CHANGE 
July 2006 against July 2005 
Exchange rate 

Economic parities

-5,2 

-4,2 

700,1 

-5,2 

22,7 

-962,3 

Weighting 

-10,0 

24,0 

-24,7 

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Proposal for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION 

laying down the weightings applicable from 1 July 2006 to the remuneration of officials, 
temporary staff and contract staff of the European Communities serving in third 
countries and of certain officials remaining in post in the two new Member States for a 
maximum period of nineteen months after accession 

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)  No 
2104/20052 and in particular the first paragraph of Article 13 of Annex X thereto, 

Having  regard  to  the  Act  concerning  the  conditions  of  accession  of  the  two  new  Member 
States, and in particular Article 27(4) thereof, 

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 

Whereas: 

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

(4) 

It is necessary to take account of changes in the cost of living in countries outside the 
Community and to determine accordingly the weightings applicable from 1 July 2004 
to remuneration paid in the currency of the country of employment to officials serving 
in third countries. 

The weightings in respect of which payment has been made on the basis of Regulation 
(EC,  Euratom)  No  351/20063  may  lead  to  retrospective  upward  or  downward 
adjustments to remuneration. 

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

Provision  should  be  made  for  the  recovery  of  sums  overpaid  in  the  event  of  a 
reduction  in  remuneration  as  a  result  of  the  new  weightings  for  the  period  between 
1 July 2006 and the date of entry into force of this Regulation. 

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2 
3 

OJ L 56, 4.3.1968, p. 1. 
OJ L 337, 22.12.2005, p. 7. 
OJ L 59, 1.3.2006, p. 1. 

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(5) 

Provision should be made for any such recovery to be restricted to a period of no more 
than  six  months  preceding  the  date  of  entry  into  force  of  this  Regulation  and  for  its 
effects to be spread over a period of no more than twelve months following that date, 
as  is  the  case  with  the  weightings  applicable  within  the  European  Community  to 
remuneration  and  pensions  of  officials  and  other  servants  of  the  European 
Communities, 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

Article 1 

With  effect  from  1  July  2006,  the  weightings  applicable  to  the  remuneration  of  officials 
temporary  staff  and  contract  staff  of  the  European  Communities  serving  in  third  countries 
payable in the currency of the country of employment shall be as shown in the Annex hereto. 

The  exchange  rates  used  for  the  calculation  of  this  remuneration  shall  be  established  in 
accordance  with  the  detailed  rules  for  the  implementation  of  the  Financial  Regulation  and 
correspond to the date of application of the weightings. 

Article 2 

1. 

2. 

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

The institutions shall make retrospective downward adjustments to remuneration in 
the  event  of  a  reduction  as  a  result  of  the  weightings  shown  in  the  Annex  for  the 
period between 1 July 2006 and the date of entry into force of this Regulation. 

Retrospective  adjustments  involving  the  recovery  of  sums  overpaid  shall  be 
restricted  to  a  period  of  no  more  than  six  months  preceding  the  date  of  entry  into 
force of this Regulation. Recovery shall be spread over no more than twelve months 
from that date. 

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

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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PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT 

(***) 

(***)  Afghanistan 
Albania 
Algeria 
Angola 
Argentina 
Armenia 
Australia 
Bangladesh 
Barbados 
Benin 
Bolivia 
Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Botswana 
Brazil 
Bulgaria 
Burkina Faso 
Burundi 
Cambodia 
Cameroon 
Canada 
Cape Verde 
Central African Republic 
Chad 
Chile 
China 
Colombia 
Congo 
Costa Rica 
Côte d'Ivoire 
Croatia 
Cuba 
Democratic Republic of Congo 
Djibouti 
Dominican Republic 
Ecuador 
Egypt 
El Salvador 
Eritrea 
Ethiopia 
Fiji 
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 
Gabon 

ANNEX 

Weighting 

July 2006 

(**) 

0 

82,7 

84,5 

113,5 

56,4 

105,7 

99,1 

43,7 

125,7 

92,3 

48,4 

77,7 

62,1 

76,2 

76,4 

89,7 

0 

70,4 

110,1 

90,6 

77,4 

120,1 

131,2 

76,6 

76,7 

63,2 

130,4 

69,1 

109,4 

105,8 

97,1 

132,4 

96,8 

71,9 

70,8 

51,0 

86,4 

49,4 

85,7 

71,3 

69,7 

116,6 

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Weighting 

July 2006 

(**) 

Gambia 
Georgia 
Ghana 
Guatemala 
Guinea 
Guinea-Bissau 
Guyana 
Haiti 
Honduras 
Hong Kong 
India 
Indonesia (Banda Aceh) 
Indonesia (Jakarta) 
Iraq 
Israel 
Jamaica 
Japan (Naka) 
Japan (Tokyo) 
Jordan 
Kazakhstan (Almaty) 
(***)  Kazakhstan (Astana) 

(***) 

(***) 

(***) 

Kenya 
Kyrgyzstan 
Laos 
Lebanon 
Lesotho 
Liberia 
Madagascar 
Malawi 
Malaysia 
Mali 
Mauritania 
Mauritius 
Mexico 
Moldavia 

(***)  Montenegro 

Morocco 
Mozambique 
Namibia 
Nepal 
New Caledonia 
New Zealand 
Nicaragua 
Niger 

EN 

55,8 

95,1 

79,9 

80,6 

56,4 

100,7 

60,6 

109,5 

74,9 

101,3 

45,3 

0 

83,9 

0 

109,6 

91,3 

113,7 

119,9 

72,3 

125,2 

0 

77,8 

80,3 

71,3 

90,8 

61,8 

0 

72,3 

70,4 

74,8 

91,2 

67,7 

70,7 

70,2 

52,6 

0 

86,8 

69,3 

72,8 

68,8 

134,5 

89,0 

60,7 

89,3 

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Weighting 

July 2006 

(**) 

(***) 

(***) 

(***) 

Nigeria 
Norway 
Pakistan 
Panama 
Papua New Guinea 
Paraguay 
Peru 
Philippines 
Romania 
Russia 
Rwanda 
Saudi-Arabia 
Senegal 
Serbia 
Sierra Leone 
Singapore 
Solomon Islands 
Somalia 
South Africa 
South Korea 
Sri Lanka 
Sudan 
Suriname 
Swaziland 
Switzerland 
Syria 
Taiwan 
Tajikistan 
Tanzania 
Thailand 
Timor Leste 
Togo 
Trinidad and Tobago 
Tunisia 
Turkey 
Uganda 
Ukraine 
United States (New York) 
United States (Washington) 
Uruguay 
Vanuatu 
Venezuela 
Vietnam 
West Bank - Gaza Strip 

EN 

94,7 

131,7 

52,2 

0 

75,6 

70,8 

78,4 

60,2 

62,7 

120,7 

87,1 

88,8 

80,7 

61,1 

75,1 

103,4 

88,7 

0 

59,9 

112,4 

55,4 

52,1 

51,9 

62,6 

116,3 

65,5 

89,9 

70,2 

58,8 

60,3 

0 

92,4 

70,4 

71,8 

83,7 

55,5 

104,6 

104,8 

100,5 

72,9 

114,5 

60,9 

54,2 

92,7 

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Yemen 
Zambia 
Zimbabwe 
(**) Brussels = 100% 
(***) Not available 

Weighting 

July 2006 

(**) 

68,2 

69,3 

47,2 

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT 

1. 

TITLE OF OPERATION 

Proposal for a Council Regulation laying down the weightings applicable from 1 July 
2006  to  the  remuneration  of  officials,  temporary  staff  and  contract  staff  of  the 
European Communities serving in third countries and of certain officials remaining 
in  post  in  the  two  new  Member  States  for  a  maximum  period  of  nineteen  months 
after accession 

2. 

BUDGET LINE INVOLVED 

XX-010102-01 

3. 

LEGAL BASIS 

Articles 12 and 13 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations 

FINANCIAL IMPACT 

Estimated actual expenditure 
for 2006 

€145 047 000 
(€12 087 250 per month) (1) 

Estimated impact of weightings 
of July 2006 

- €35 242,47 (2) 

Estimated annual expenditure [(2) x 12] 

- €422 909,66 

Impact in terms of estimated 
actual expenditure [(2) : (1)] (1)] 

- 0,2915% 

4. 

4.1 

4.2 

4.3 

4.4 

This financial impact does not include the impact of the intermediate weightings set 
monthly by the Commission. 

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