Council Regulation (EC) No 624/2008

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THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,Having regard to the Staff Regulations of officials of the European Communities and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the Communities laid down by Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68^note, and in particular the first paragraph of Article 13 of Annex X thereto,Having regard to the Act of Accession of 2005, and in particular Article 27(4) thereof,Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,Whereas:

(1)It is necessary to take account of changes in the cost of living in countries outside the Community and to determine accordingly the weightings applicable from 1 July 2007 to remuneration paid in the currency of the country of employment to officials, temporary staff and contract staff serving in third countries.

(2)The weightings in respect of which payment has been made on the basis of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 453/2007^note may lead to retrospective upward or downward adjustments to remuneration.

(3)Provision should be made for back-payments in the event of increases in remuneration as a result of the new weightings.

(4)Provision should be made for the recovery of sums overpaid in the event of reductions in remuneration as a result of the new weightings for the period between 1 July 2007 and the date of entry into force of this Regulation.

(5)Provision should be made for any such recovery to be restricted to a period of no more than six months preceding the date of entry into force of this Regulation and for its effects to be spread over a period of no more than 12 months following that date, as is the case with the weightings applicable within the European Community to the remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants of the European Communities,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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With effect from 1 July 2007, the weightings applicable to the remuneration of officials, temporary staff and contract staff of the European Communities serving in third countries payable in the currency of the country of employment shall be as shown in the Annex hereto.The exchange rates used for the calculation of that remuneration shall be established in accordance with the detailed rules for the implementation of the Financial Regulation and correspond to the date indicated in the first subparagraph.

Article 2 #

1.The institutions shall make back-payments in the event of increases in remuneration as a result of the weightings shown in the Annex.

2.The institutions shall make retrospective downward adjustments to remuneration in the event of reductions as a result of the weightings shown in the Annex for the period between 1 July 2007 and the date of entry into force of this Regulation.Retrospective adjustments involving the recovery of sums overpaid shall be restricted to a period of no more than six months preceding the date of entry into force of this Regulation. Recovery shall be spread over no more than 12 months from that date.

Article 3 #

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Place of employment	Weighting July 2007^note
Afghanistan^note	0
Albania	80,2
Algeria	88,7
Angola	130
Argentina	57,1
Armenia	123,5
Australia	112,2
Azerbaijan^note	0
Bangladesh	48,2
Barbados	129,7
Belarus^note	0
Benin	91,9
Bolivia	48
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Banja Luka)	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo)	78,7
Botswana	56,4
Brazil	93,2
Bulgaria	81,7
Burkina Faso	90,7
Burundi^note	0
Cambodia	69,8
Cameroon	101,9
Canada	93
Cape Verde	80,9
Central African Republic	119,1
Chad	129,4
Chile	71,5
China	77,4
Colombia	82,1
Congo (Brazzaville)	130,2
Costa Rica	73,7
Côte d’Ivoire	100,2
Croatia	106,8
Cuba	86,1
Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)	129,5
Djibouti	94,3
Dominican Republic	69,3
East Timor	66,5
Ecuador	64,8
Egypt	49,6
El Salvador	76,1
Eritrea	51,3
Ethiopia	88,3
Fiji	73,5
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	71,7
Gabon	123
Gambia	60,5
Georgia	96,6
Ghana	69,7
Guatemala	78,6
Guinea	73,3
Guinea-Bissau	100,7
Guyana	62,1
Haiti	118,8
Honduras	69,7
Hong Kong	94,8
India	52,9
Indonesia (Banda Aceh)	53,9
Indonesia (Jakarta)	81,1
Iraq	0
Israel	109,5
Jamaica	90,5
Japan (Naka)	101
Japan (Tokyo)	106,5
Jordan	77,7
Kazakhstan (Almaty)	125,4
Kazakhstan (Astana)	71,6
Kenya	81,9
Kosovo
Kyrgyzstan	88,3
Laos	74,2
Lebanon	86
Lesotho	62
Liberia^note	0
Madagascar	86,6
Malawi	71,8
Malaysia	74,4
Mali	85
Mauritania	65,3
Mauritius	69,5
Mexico	74,4
Micronesia^note	0
Montenegro	69,7
Morocco	89,5
Mozambique	77,7
Namibia	72,5
Nepal	82,5
New Caledonia	135,3
New Zealand	109,6
Nicaragua	57
Niger	85
Nigeria	86,1
Norway	132
Pakistan	50,7
Panama	61
Papua New Guinea	74,3
Paraguay	82,2
Peru	77,5
Philippines	64,4
Republic of Moldova	59,6
Romania	73,9
Russia	122,6
Rwanda	91,7
Samoa^note	0
Saudi Arabia	84,6
Senegal	87,7
Serbia	66,1
Sierra Leone	75,4
Singapore	102,5
Solomon Islands	94,8
Somalia^note	0
South Africa	60,2
South Korea	113,9
Southern Sudan	0
Sri Lanka	53,2
Sudan	56,2
Suriname	49,4
Swaziland	57
Switzerland (Berne)	109,7
Switzerland (Geneva)	109,8
Syria	69,4
Taiwan	83,7
Tajikistan	66,9
Tanzania	61,9
Thailand	67,7
Togo	89,4
Tonga^note	0
Trinidad and Tobago	68,3
Tunisia	71,5
Turkey	83,8
Uganda	77,1
Ukraine	108,2
United States (New York)	102,8
United States (Washington)	97,8
Uruguay	69,8
Uzbekistan^note	0
Vanuatu	122,6
Venezuela	65,2
Vietnam	51,5
West Bank – Gaza Strip	92,1
Yemen	77,3
Zambia	64,8
Zimbabwe^note	0

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