Regulation C/REG. 10/12/01 Approving the Rate of Transport Allowance to be Paid to Professional Staff of the Institutions of the Community

Jurisdiction
African Regional Bodies · Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Date
17 December 2001
Language
English
Type
Regulation

Economic Community of West African States

Regulation C/REG. 10/12/01 Approving the Rate of Transport Allowance to be Paid to Professional Staff of the Institutions of the Community

The Council of Ministers,MINDFUL of Articles 10, 11 and 12 of the Treaty establishing the Council of Ministers and defining its composition and functions;MINDFUL of the provisions of paragraph (d) Article 29 of the Staff Regulations which approve the payment of Transport Allowance to all staff of the Institutions of the Community;CONSIDERING the high inflationary trends experi­enced in the host countries of the Community Insti­tutions and the adverse effect on the purchasing power of the staff.CONSIDERING that the locally recruited staff are already having the benefit of the transport allow­ance which was approved by the Twenty Ninth Session of the Council of Ministers held in Abuja from 30th June to 3 July 1991;DESIRING to increase the purchasing power of all Staff of the Institutions of the Community.ON THE RECOMMENDATION of the Twenty-Sev­enth meeting of the Administration and Finance Com­mission held in Abuja from 27 November to 3 De­cember, 2001ENACTS

Article 1

All Professional Staff of the Institutions of the Community shall be paid a trasport allowance equivalent to 5% of their basic monthly salaries with effect from 1 January, 2002.

Article 2

This Regulation shall be published by the Executive Secretariat in the Official Journal of the Community within (30) days of its signature by the Chairman of Council. It shall also be published by each Member State in its National Gazette within the same time frame.
Done at Dakar, this 17th day of December, 2001Bacari KoneChairman for Council
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