Regulation C/REG.11 /12/99 Abolishing the post of Financial Controller of the Community Institutions

Jurisdiction
African Regional Bodies · Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Date
7 December 1999
Language
English
Type
Legislation
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Economic Community of West African States

Regulation C/REG.11 /12/99 Abolishing the post of Financial Controller of the Community Institutions

The Council of Ministers,MINDFUL of Articles 10, 11 and 12 of the Revised Treaty establishing the Council of Ministers and defining its composition and functions;CONSIDERING that the post of Financial Controller of the Institutions of the Community was established by the repealed 1975 ECOWAS Treaty;ALSO CONSIDERING that the Revised Treaty does not make any provisions for the past of Financial Controller;RECOGNIZING the fact that the functions of the Financial Controller duplicate those of both the Internal and External Auditors, and has no relevance in the new organisational structure of the Executive Secretariat and other Institutions of the Community;DESIRING to streamline and rationalise all posts in the Institutions of the Community;On the RECOMMENDATION of the third meeting of the ad hoc Ministerial Committee on the restructuring of the Executive Secretariat held in Lomé on 1st and 2nd December, 1999;ENACTS

Article 1

1.The post of Financial Controller of the Institutions of the Community is hereby abolished.
2.All functions hitherto performed by the Financial Controller under mandate given by any Decisions, Regulations and Resolutions of ECOWAS; in particular the Financial Regulations and Manual of Accounting Procedures of the Institutions of ECOWAS shall henceforth be carried out by the Directors of Internal Audit of the Institutions of the Community and the External Auditor as appropriate.

Article 2

This Regulation shall be published by the Executive Secretariat in the Official Journal of the Community within thirty (30) days of its signature by the Chairman of Council. It shall also be published by each Member State in its National Gazette within the same time-frame.
Done at Lomé, this 7th day of December, 1999.Abdoul Hamid S.B. DurodjayeChairman for Council.
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