Regulation C/REG.18/12/07 Relating to the Increase of the Lump Sum Allowance for the Staff Attached to the Office of the Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament in His Country of Residence

Jurisdiction
African Regional Bodies · Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Date
15 December 2007
Language
English
Type
Legislation
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Economic Community of West African States

Regulation C/REG.18/12/07 Relating to the Increase of the Lump Sum Allowance for the Staff Attached to the Office of the Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament in His Country of Residence

The Council MinistersMINDFUL of Article 10, 11 and 12 of the ECOWAS Treaty as amended, establishing the Council of Ministers and defining its composition and functions,MINDFUL of Article 13 of the said Treaty on the ECOWAS Parliament;MINDFUL of Protocol A/P2/8/94 as amended relating to the ECOWAS Parliament and more specifically Article 10 of the said Protocol, which provides for an allowance payable to the Members of the ECOWAS Parliament;MINDFUL of Decision A/DEC.25/12/01 relating to the benefits payable to the Members of the ECOWAS Parliament;MINDFUL of Regulation C/REG/2/12/06 approving the budget of the ECOWAS Parliament;MINDFUL of the recommendations of the seventh session of the Council of Ministers approving the staff recruitment plan of the Institutions of the Community;RECALLING paragraph 45(xii) of the report of the fifty-seventh session of the Council of Ministers by which a monthly allowance of two thousand dollars ($2000) was granted to the Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament to cover the cost of support services for his office in his home State.CONVINCED of the need to provide the ECOWAS Parliament and its Speaker with additional resources, and to that effect, increase the amount of the monthly allowance indicated above;UPON THE RECOMMENDATION of the second meeting of the Administration and Finance Committee, held in Abuja from 26 November to 3 December 2007;ENACTS

Article 1

A monthly allowance of three thousand United States dollars ($3000) is hereby allocated to the Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament in replacement of the two thousand US Dollars (US$2000) previously allocated to cater for his support staff in his country of residence.

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 Chairperson 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 15th day of December 2007H.E. Mrs. Minata Samaté CessoumaChairperson, for Council
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