'TOTAL EMOLUMENTS PER HEAD IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION', AS PUBLISHED IN NATIONAL ACCOUNTS, WHICH INDEX HAD TO REFLECT THE VARIATION IN THE TOTAL SALARY AND OTHER BENEFITS AFFORDED TO THE NATIONAL OFFICIALS IN EACH MEMBER STATE .
8 FOR THE 1972-1973 SALARY PERIOD THE COUNCIL, ON THE BASIS OF A SPECIFIC INDEX OF 3.6 PER CENT AND A TOTAL EMOLUMENTS INDEX OF 3.9 PER CENT ISSUED BY THE STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, FIXED THE INCREASE IN SALARIES AT 3.65 PER CENT .
9 FOR THE 1973-1974 SALARY PERIOD, ON THE BASIS OF A SPECIFIC INDEX 7.3 PER CENT AND A TOTAL EMOLUMENTS INDEX OF 3.2 PER CENT, THE COUNCIL FIXED THE INCREASE AT 3.3 PER CENT .
10 IN SEEKING THE REASONS FOR THE SUDDEN INCREASE FROM ONE YEAR TO THE NEXT OF THE COMMUNITY SPECIFIC INDEX, THE COMMISSION FOUND THAT THE ITALIAN SPECIFIC INDEX, FROM ONE PERIOD TO THE NEXT, HAD MADE A LEAP OF SOME 30 PER CENT WHICH WAS REFLECTED IN THE COMMUNITY SPECIFIC INDEX .
11 THIS SUDDEN INCREASE WAS DUE TO THE FACT THAT AS REGARDS THE FIRST PERIOD THE ITALIAN SPECIFIC INDEX TOOK ACCOUNT ONLY OF BASIC SALARIES AND CERTAIN GENERAL AND PERMANENT ALLOWANCES, TO THE EXCLUSION OF A WHOLE SERIES OF ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGES OF A SPECIFIC NATURE AND RELATING TO SPECIAL PUBLIC ACCOUNTS OR ADMINISTRATION INDEPENDENT OF THE BUDGET, BUT FROM WHICH LARGE CATEGORIES OF OFFICIALS BENEFITED, WHEREAS FOR THE FOLLOWING PERIOD, AS A RESULT OF A REFORM AND RESTRUCTURING OF THE SYSTEM OF SALARIES IN THE ITALIAN PUBLIC SERVICE RESULTING FROM A DECREE OF 30 JUNE 1972 AND A LAW OF 15 NOVEMBER 1973, THESE ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGES HAD TO A LARGE EXTENT BEEN INCLUDED IN THE SALARIES .
12 IT APPEARS THAT THE LEVEL OF SALARIES IN THE ITALIAN PUBLIC SERVICE BEFORE THE ABOVE REFORM WAS ATTRIBUTABLE, TO AN EXTENT DISPUTED BY THE PARTIES BUT NOT INCONSIDERABLE, TO THESE ADDITIONAL ITEMS .
13 THE COMMISSION INFERS THAT THE TOTAL OF CASUAL REMUNERATION WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE COMMISSION, REPRESENTS AN AVERAGE AMOUNT OF 30 PER CENT OF THE BASIC SALARIES, SHOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT BEFORE THE 1972-1973 REFORM IN PREPARING THE ITALIAN SPECIFIC INDEX AND HENCE IN PREPARING THE COMMUNITY SPECIFIC INDEX .
14 SUCH CORRECTION WOULD MEAN A REDUCTION IN THE SPECIFIC INDEX ( 7.3 ) USED TO FIX THE LEVEL OF SALARIES FROM 1 JULY 1973 BUT AN INCREASE IN THE SPECIFIC INDEX ( 3.6 ) USED FOR THE LEVEL OF REMUNERATION AS FROM 1 JULY 1972 .
15 ACCORDING TO THE APPLICANT THIS CORRECTION DOES NOT AFFECT THE LEVEL OF REMUNERATION FOR THE 1973/1974 SALARY PERIOD BUT MUST LEAD TO AN ADJUSTMENT FOR THE 1972/1973 PERIOD .
16 ON BEING INFORMED OF THESE ITEMS TO BE APPRAISED, THE COUNCIL UNDERTOOK ON 18 DECEMBER 1973, AT THE TIME WHEN IT WAS FIXING THE SALARY FOR THE 1973/1974 PERIOD, TO 'CONSIDER WITH AN OPEN MIND' THE PROPOSALS WHICH THE COMMISSION INTENDED TO PUT TO IT IN THIS RESPECT .