Regulation C/REG.1/06/07 Granting Responsibility Allowance to the President, Vice President and Commissioner of the ECOWAS Commission and to other Statutory Appointees of the Community

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Economic Community of West African States

Regulation C/REG.1/06/07 Granting Responsibility Allowance to the President, Vice President and Commissioner of the ECOWAS Commission and to other Statutory Appointees of the Community

The Council of Ministers,MINDFUL of Articles 10,11 and 12 of the ECOWAS Treaty as amended, establishing the Council of Ministers and defining its composition and functions,MINDFUL of the directive contained in the Final Communique of the twenty-eighth ordinary session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government that the Management of the ECOWAS Secretariat should be restructured to adapt it to the international environment and to make 8 more effective in the discharge of its sub-regional integration mission;MINDFUL of Decision A/DEC.16/01/06 transforming the Executive Secretariat into a Commission;MINDFUL of the responsibility of the Council with regard to the functioning and development of the institutions of the Community, as provided for in the ECOWAS Treaty;CONSIDERING the fact that there is no text regulating the conditions of service for Commissioners of the ECOWAS Commission;CONSIDERING the need to grant ECOWAS Statutory Appointees remunerations and other allowances capable of not only serving as compensation for their competence and efficiency also encouraging and motivating them with a view to ensuring the achievement of the objectives of the Community;CONVINCED however, of the need to carry out a study to facilitate the taking of appropriate decisions that factor in overall available resources, respect for the ratios between resources allocated to the funding of projects and programmes and those allocated to operating costs, as well as the experiences of other similar regional integration organisations;DESIRING to grant the President, the Vice President and Commissioners, and other Statutory Appointees, a responsibility allowance pending the conduct of the afore-said study;AFTER CONSIDERATION of the report of the first meeting of the Administration and Finance Committee, held in Abuja from 21 to 25 May 2007;ENACTS

Article 1

1.Pending the conduct of a study and the faking of an appropriate decision thereon, concerning the conditions of service of ECOWAS Statutory Appointees, the following responsibility allowances are hereby granted to the President, the Vice President and Commissioners of the ECOWAS Commission and to other Statutory Appointees of the Community
i)President of the Commission 10% of, basic salary
ii)Vice President and Heads of other Institutions8% of basic salary
iii)Commissioners and other Statutory Appointees of The Community 5% of basic salary
2.The allowance mentioned in paragraph 1 of this article shall be payable monthly to the concerned officers of the Community

Article 2

With respect to the Commissioners, the conditions of service to be adopted shall take effect from the date of assumption of office.

Article 3

This Regulation shall be published by the Commission in the Official Journal of the Community within thirty (30) days of its signature by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. It shall also be published by each Member State in us Official Gazelle within the same time frame.
Done at Ouagadougou, this 5th day of June 2007Hon. Youssouf OuedraogoChairman, for the Council.
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