2008/326/EC: Commission Decision of 11 April 2008 adjusting the weightings applicable from 1 February 2007 , 1 March 2007 , 1 April 2007 , 1 May 2007 and 1 June 2007 to the remuneration of officials, temporary staff and contract staff of the European Communities serving in third countries
Date: 2008-04-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European official, regulations for civil servants, servant (EU), third country, wage determination

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 11 April 2008

adjusting the weightings applicable from 1 February 2007, 1 March 2007, 1 April 2007, 1 May 2007
and 1 June 2007 to the remuneration of officials, temporary staff and contract staff of the European
Communities serving in third countries

(2008/326/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), 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 2006 to the remuneration of officials,
temporary staff and contract
the European
Communities serving in third countries payable in the
currency of
their country of employment were laid
down by Council Regulation (EC) No 453/2007 (2).

staff of

Some of
these weightings need to be adjusted in
accordance with the second paragraph of Article 13 of
from
Annex X to the Staff Regulations, with effect
1 February, 1 March, 1 April, 1 May and 1 June 2007,
since the statistics available to the Commission show that

in 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 February, 1 March, 1 April, 1 May and
1 June 2007 the weightings applied to the remuneration of
officials, temporary staff and contract staff of the European
in the
Communities
currency of
the country of employment, shall be those set
out in the Annex hereto.

serving in third countries, payable

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

Done at Brussels, 11 April 2008.

For the Commission

Benita FERRERO-WALDNER
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 56, 4.3.1968, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC, Euratom) No 337/2007 (OJ L 90, 30.3.2007, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 109, 26.4.2007, p. 22.

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ANNEX

Place of employment

Weighting February 2007

117,3

127,5

80,4

82,3

117,3

70,8

57,7

114,8

92,3

78,8

65,1

78,8

137,6

76,6

61,6

70,6

Angola

Barbados

Bulgaria

Cape Verde

South Korea

Costa Rica

Guinea (Conakry)

Haiti

Lebanon

Nepal

Uganda

Paraguay

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)

Sierra Leone

Sudan

Syria

Argentina

Cameroon

Côte d’Ivoire

Guyana

India

Jordan

Kazakhstan (Almaty)

Kyrgyzstan

Madagascar

Uganda

Sri Lanka

Venezuela

Angola

Botswana

Guinea (Conakry)

Mali

Sudan

Tajikistan

Zambia

Place of employment

Weighting March 2007

53,5

103,5

98,7

61,3

47,6

75,9

121,6

84,3

84,7

69,4

53,2

64,1

Place of employment

Weighting April 2007

121,8

58,1

49,2

86,3

55,1

66,5

56,3

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Place of employment

Weighting May 2007

Argentina

Costa Rica

Ethiopia

Ghana

Indonesia (Jakarta)

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)

Trinidad and Tobago

Turkey

Yemen

54,9

70,8

87,1

69,2

79,5

131,6

68,6

85,9

76,0

Place of employment

Weighting June 2007

Canada

El Salvador

United States (New York)

Guatemala

Malawi

Moldova

Nicaragua

Rwanda

Tanzania

92,7

76,6

103,1

79,0

73,1

58,5

57,3

90,9

61,7