Decision on Scale of Assessment

DECISION ON SCALE OF ASSESSMENT

Doc. EX.CL.827(XXIV)

The Executive Council,

1. TAKES NOTE of the Report of the Ministerial Committee on the Review of the Scale of Assessment;

2. DECIDES to endorse the recommendations of the Ministerial Committee as follows:

i) The new AU Scale of Assessment will be based on a ceiling of 12.904 percent without the imposition of a floor rate

ii) The scale will be implemented for the financial years 2014, 2015 and 2016

3. ADOPTS the new AU Scale of Assessment;I

4. URGES Member States to promptly pay their assessed contributions;

5. REQUESTS the Commission to employ most effective means to encourage Member States, individually, which have the capacity to and are able to pay over and above their assessed contribution to do so.