CELEX: 51976PC0161
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Date: 1976-04-13
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION adjusting the weightings applied to the remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants of the European Communities (Submitted by the Commission to the Council)

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                                     COM(76)161 final
                                             Brussels , 13th April 1976
               PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION
 adjusting the weightings applied to the remuneration and
 pensions of officials and other servants of the European
                    /      Communities
                                   i
                 ( Submitted by the Commission to the Council )
                                                             /
                                                    I ■  ; . ;
 COM ( 76 ) 161 final /
 ---pagebreak---                                EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 I.    Artiole 65(2 ) of the Staff Regulations reads :
 "In the event of a substantial ohange in the cost of living the Counoil
 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 1975
 in Brussels and in the various countries where staff are employed .
 On 31 December 1975 (June 1"975 ■ 100) the figures for the various countries
 were as follows :
                    Belgium                         106.1
                    Denmark                         106.1
                    Germany                         101.7
                  " France                          105.0
                    Ireland^ '                      102.0
                    Italy                           106.0
                    Netherlands                     103-5
                   United Kingdom                   110.7
                 . Switzerland     '                100.7
                   USA                              103.6
The Commission feels that these considerable increases warrant salary
adjustments with effect from 1 January 1976 .
  National index .
2- .           .     . „   „     .
 Referenoe period May-November 1 975 -
 ---pagebreak--- The Commission therefore proposes that the weightings applioabla to the
 remuneration of officials in their various countries of employment should
be adjusted as indicated in the attached proposal for a regulation .
II . On 6 November 1975 » "the Council deoided that the reduction in headquarters
rates (O . 58 percentage points ) should apply to weightings for other places
and reduced , not the six-monthly index , "but the rate of cost of living •
recorded in those places "by the same percentage .   This , however , has led to
a disparity in purchasing power as between the various places of employment .
The weightings for Belgium , Luxembourg , Prance and Italy do not need correcting .
The corrections for the other countries are very small , lying between
– 0.07$ and + 0.7$.                           ;
III . One objective of our staff pay policy is to ensure that where possible
all staff at all places of employment have the same purchasing power ( see
Article 64 of the Staff Regulations ).
To achieve this objective , salaries must constantly be updated by means of
appropriate changes to the weightings .    This becomes particularly vital in
times of inflation.           I
In the present situation , when rates of inflation vary from one Member State
to another , the Commission reserves the right , if necessary , to put forward
additional proposals for adjustment of the weightings .
IV . Since statistics for Ireland are not prepared at the same time as the
others , the weighting applied to remuneration of Community staff in
Ireland was not adjusted on 1 July 1975 *
This weighting therefore now has to be adjusted on two counts .
 ---pagebreak---                                      PROPOSAL FOR
                                 A COUNCIL REGULATION
                         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
Council Regulation (EEC , Euratom , ECSC) No 259/68 , as last amended by Council
                                                ?
Regulation (Euratom , ECSC , EEC ) No 2998/75 » and in particular Articles 64 , 65(2 )
and 82 of the Staff Regulations and the first paragraph of Article 20 and Article 6
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 1975 in Belgium and in the other countries where official
and other servants of the European Communities are employed , the weightings applied
to the remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants should be adjuster!
with effect from 1 January 1976 ,
Whereas    it was not possible to adjust the weightings applied to the remuneration
and pensions of officials and other servants employed in Ireland on 1 July 1975
since the necessary statistics were unavailable .
          *
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION ;
                       ►
                                     Article 1
1.   With effect from 1 July 1975 the weighting applicable to the remuneration of
officials employed in Ireland shall be as follows :
                 Ireland :    178.3
 pOJ No L 56 , 4 March 1963 , p.1 .
   OJ No L 299 , 19 November 1975 , p.1 .
 ---pagebreak---  2.  With         from 1 July 1?75        weighting applicable to pensions in accordance
with the second, subparagraph of Artiole 82(1 ) of the Staff Regulations shall "be
 178.3 for persons entitled to pension who deolare their homes to "be in Ireland .
                                   Article 2
1 . With effect from 1 January 1976 "the weightings applicable to the remuneration
of offioials employed in the countries listed below shall be as follows :
              Belgium              157.8
              Denmark              198.4
              Germany              I3O.9
              Prance              186.8
              Ireland             181 . 9
              Italy               176.6
              Luxembourg          157.8
             Netherlands           146.7
             United Kingdom       202.6
              Switzerland          133.4
             USA                  207.6
2 . With effeot from 1 January 1976 the weightings 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 which the person entitled to
the pension deolares his home to be :
             Belgium              157.8
             Denmark              198.4
             Germany              130.9
             Prance               186.8
           *
             Ireland             181.9
             Italy               176 .'6
             Luxembourg          157.8
             Netherlands          146-7
             United Kingdom      202.6
 ---pagebreak---                                        - 3 -
*  If «. portion •ntlDlad to * pension deolarea his homo to be la a' oountry other than
   those listed above , the weighting applicable to the pension shall be that for
  Belgium .
                                     Article 3
  The temporary fixed allowanoe provided for by Artiole 4a of Annex VII to the
  Staff Regulations shall be payable until 30 June 1978 *
                                     Article 4
  Article 1 of Council Regulation (Euratom , ECSC , EEC ) Ho 2998/ 75 is repealed with
  effeot from 1 January 1976 , except for the words and figures "Ireland 1 64.2" in
  both paragraphs of Artiole 1 , fthich are repealed with effect from 1 July 1975 *
  Article 3(2 ) of Regulation (EEC , Euratom, ECSC ) No 3191/74 is repealed with effect
  from 1 July 1976#
                                     Article 5
  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 directly applicable in all
  Member States *
  Done at Brussels ,                                          For the Council
                                                              The President