Regulation C/REG.11/12/06 Approving a Budgetary Allocation for the Management of the ECOWAS Logistics Depot in Sierra Leone


Economic Community of West African States

Regulation C/REG.11/12/06 Approving a Budgetary Allocation for the Management of the ECOWAS Logistics Depot in Sierra Leone

The Council of Ministers,MINDFUL of Articles 10, 11 and 12 of the ECOWAS Treaty as amended in June 2006 establishing the Council of Ministers and defining its composition and function;MINDFUL of Article 58 of the ECOWAS Treaty relating to Regional Security;MINDFUL of Decision A/DEC.17/01/05 establishing the ECOWAS Logistics Depots in Mali and Sierra Leone;RECALLING that the Government of Sierra Leone has granted to ECOWAS, the Hastings Airfield Complex in Freetown for use as the ECOWAS Logistics Depot for stocking and maintaining ECOWAS peace support equipment and supplies;ALSO RECALLING the Headquarters Agreement for the logistics Depot between ECOWAS and the Government of Sierra Leone of 9th January 2006 which was later amended on 29th August 2006;AWARE of the donation of a large supply of Peace Support equipment by the Government of the United States of America to ECOWAS which will be transferred from the USA Murray Town Depot in Freetown to the Hastings Airfield Complex;DESIROUS of providing counterpart funding for the management of the depot in Sierra Leone;ON THE RECOMMENDATION of the Thirty sixth Meeting of Administration and Finance Commission which held in Abuja from 22 - 27 November 2006 and in Ouagadougou on 15 and 16 December 2006;ENACTS

Article 1

1.A lump sum of one million, one hundred and thirty one thousand nine hundred United States dollars ($1,131,900:00) is hereby approved as ECOWAS counterpart funding for the management of the logistics depot in Sierra Leone.
2.The amount stated in paragraph 1 of this article which will be sourced from the ECOWAS Peace Fund shall represent the 2007 budgetary allocation for the said depot.

Article 2

This Regulation shall be published in the Official Journal of the Community by the Commission within thirty (30) days of its signature by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. It shall also be published within the same time frame in the National Gazette of each Member State.
Done at Ouagadougou, this 19th day of December, 2006Hon. Aïchatou Mindaoudou,Chairperson, for the Council
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