Regulation C/REG.8/06/07 Relating to Modalities for Implementing Regulation C/REG.5/06/06 Allocating the Post of Secretary-General of the ECOWAS Parliament to the Republic of Guinea as an Exceptional Case

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

Regulation C/REG.8/06/07 Relating to Modalities for Implementing Regulation C/REG.5/06/06 Allocating the Post of Secretary-General of the ECOWAS Parliament to the Republic of Guinea as an Exceptional Case

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;RECALLING that, at its fifty-sixth session, held in Abuja on 12 and 13 June 2006, the Council had agreed to allocate the post of Secretary-General of the ECOWAS Parliament to the Republic of Guinea, and that this Decision as contained in the report of the aforementioned session had been endorsed by the thirtieth session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government, also held in Abuja on 14 June 2006.RECALLING also that the need to ensure continuity and the institutional memory of the Parliament, informed the decision of Council to allocate the post of Secretary-General to the Republic of Guinea;NOTING that, to date, no Guinean national has been appointed to the Parliament to fill the post of Secretary-General of the Parliament;AWARE of the need to depart from the provisions of Article 2, paragraph 6, of Regulation C/REG./3/06/06 relating to the operations, structure, administrative and financial management of the ECOWAS Parliament, which stipulates that the grade of the Secretary-General as professional officer D2 shall take effect at the expiration of the tenure of the incumbent,ACKNOWLEDGING the need to set modalities to facilitate and accelerate the implementation of Regulation C/REG.5/06/06 referred to above;ENACTS

Article 1

1.The post of Secretary-General of the ECOWAS Parliament is hereby allocated to the candidate presented by the Republic of Guinea.
2.The Guinean candidate referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be appointed and classified under the statutory staff category, as an exceptional case, for a non-renewable term of four (4) years.

Article 2

At the expiration of the tenure of the Guineen candidate appointed as Secretary-General of the ECOWAS Parliament, the post shall be classified under the professional staff category D2. The vacant post shall be published in all Member States;

Article 3

The President, of the Commission shall notify the Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament of this Regulation for its diligent implementation.

Article 4

This Regulation shall be published in the Official Journal of the Community by the ECOWAS Commission within (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 5th day of June, 2007Hon. Youssouf OuedraogoChairman, for the Council.
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