CELEX: 51977PC0103
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Date: 1977-03-31
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EURATOM, ECSC, EEC) adjusting the weightings applied to the remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants of the European Communities (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                           COM ( 77 ) 103 final .
                                           Brussels , 31 March 1977 .
                              Proposal for a
                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EURATOM , ECSC , EEC )
                   adjusting the weightings applied to the
                 remuneration and pensions of officials and
                 other servants of the European Communities
                 ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
  COM ( 77 ) 103 final .
 ---pagebreak---                                                         IX/384/77-E
                         EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Artiole 65(2 ) of the Staff Regulations reads :
"In the event of a substantial change in the cost of living, the
Council shall decide within two months what adjustments should be
made to the weightings and , if appropriate , to apply them retrospectively .
The Statistical Office of the European Communities , in agreement with
the statistical offices of the Member States and the OECD , has prepared
joint indexes showing changes in the cost of living in the second half
of 1976 in Brussels and in the various countries where staff are
employed .
On 31 Deoember 1976 ( June 1976 = 100) the figures for the various
countries were as follows :
                    1
           Belgiumg            104.5
           Denmarkg            IO5.9
           Germanjj            101.0
           Franc e _ -         105.0
           Ireland '           IO5.8
           Italy2 '            110.1
           Netherlands    g    103.2
           United Kingdom      107.7
           Canada2             102.7
                 2
           Japan       p       104.1
           Switzerland         101.0
           USA2                102.5
The Commission feels that these considerable increases warrant salary
adjustments wij;h effect from 1 January 1977 *
The Commission therefore proposes that the weightings applicable to
the remuneration of officials in their various countries of employment
should be adjusted as indicated in the attached proposal for a
regulation .
pJoint index.
. National consumer price index .
  Reference period May - November 1976 .
 ---pagebreak---                                                       IX/384/77-2
                                  PROPOSAL POR
                   COUNCIL REGULATION (Euratom,ECSC fEEC ) No .../...
                              of
                   adjusting the weightings applied to the
                   remuneration and pensions of officials and
                   other servants of the European Communities
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single
 Commission of the European Communities ,
 Having regard to the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions
of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities laid down
"by Counoil Regulation (EEC , Euratom , ECSC ) No„259/68 , as last amended
ty Regulation (ECSC , EEC , Euratom ) No 3177/76 , and in particular
Articles 64 , 65(2 ) and 82 of the Staff Regulations and the first
paragraph of Article 20 and Article 64 of the Conditions of Employment ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas , by reason of the substantial rise in the cost of living which
took place during the second half of 1976 in Belgium and in the other
countries where offioials and other servants of the European Communities
are employed , the weightings applied to the remuneration and pensions of
offioials and other servants should be adjusted with effect from
 1 January 1977 »
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                 Article 1
 1.   With effect from 1 January 1977 "the weightings applicable to the
remuneration oT officials employed in the countries listed below shall
be as follows :
Belgium                            104.5
Denmark                            129.8
 Germany                            83.3
Prance                             126.4
Ireland                            135-0
Italy                              132.1
Luxembourg                         104.5
Netherlands                         96.9
United Kingdom                     135-9
Canada                             130.5
Japan                              151.4
Switzerland                         83.1
USA                                132.2
             «
 oQ<I Ho L 56 , 4 March 1968 , p.l v
 ^0J No L 359 » 30 Decomber 1976 , p.l
 ---pagebreak--- 2 . With effect from 1 January 1977 the weighting applicable to
pensions in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 82(1 )
of the Staff Regulations shall be as shown below for the Community
country in whioh the person entitled to the pension declares his home
to be :
Belgium   *                     104*5
Denmark                         129 <8
Germany           "              83.3
France                          126.4
Ireland                         135*0
Italy                           132.1
Luxembourg                      104»5
Netherlands                      96 • 9
United Kingdom                  135*9
If a person entitled to a pension declares his home to be in a country
other than those listed above , the weighting applicable to the pension
shall be that for Belgium .
                                Article 2
                                                                  «•
Article 5(2 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (ECSC , EEC , Euratom) Kb 3177/76
is repealed with effeot from 1 January 1977 *
                                Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Offioial Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and direotly applicable
in all Member States .
Done at Brussels ,                           For the Council
                                             The President
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