Regulation C/REG 8/12/06 Adoption of a Rate for the Daily Subsistence Allowance and Travel Fares for Eminent Persons on Official Mission for the Community Institutions

Jurisdiction
African Regional Bodies · Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Date
19 December 2006
Language
English
Type
Regulation

Economic Community of West African States

Regulation C/REG 8/12/06 Adoption of a Rate for the Daily Subsistence Allowance and Travel Fares for Eminent Persons on Official Mission for the Community Institutions

The Council of Ministers,MINDFUL of Articles 10, 11 and 12 of the ECOWAS Treaty as amended in June 2006 establishing the Council of Ministers and defining its composition and functions;MINDFUL of Regulation C/REG.15/01/05 relating to the adoption of revised rates for the daily subsistence allowance for staff and other ECOWAS representatives on mission for the Community institutions;CONSIDERING that the Regulation referred to above has not made any provision for daily subsistence allowance rates for eminent persons undertaking official missions for the Community institutions at the expense of the said institutions;CONSIDERING that the success of some activities requires the services of eminent persons and, in view of the need to dispatch them on mission for the Community institutions;CONSIDERING that, on account of the prominent roles they played, the precedence conferred on them by their status and the privileges generally granted them, eminent persons are in a category that is superior to the highest category of persons for which daily subsistence allowance rates have been provided in the Regulation referred to above;DESIROUS of fixing a rate for the daily subsistence allowance as well as travel fares applicable to eminent persons on official mission for the Community institutions;ON THE RECOMMENDATION of the thirty-sixth meeting of the Administration and Finance Committee, held in Abuja from 22 to 27 November 2006 and in Ouagadougou on 15 and 16 December 2006;ENACTS

Article 1

1.The rate for daily subsistence allowance applicable to former Presidents/Heads of State and former Prime Ministers is seven hundred United States dollars (US$700).
2.A lump sum of one thousand United States dollars (US$1,000) shall also be paid to them whilst on mission for the Community.

Article 2

The former Speakers/President (Senate and House of Representatives), former Vice Presidents and the former Chief Justices of Supreme Courts of Member States shall be paid a daily subsistence allowance of five hundred United States dollars (US$500).

Article 3

The eminent persons refer to in articles 1 and 2 of this Regulation shall travel first class.

Article 4

The rates indicated under Articles 1 & 2 of this Regulation shall be applied irrespective of the area where such missions are conducted.

Article 5

This Regulation shall be published in the Official Journal of the Community by the Commission within thirty (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 19th day of December, 2006Hon. Aïchatou Mindaoudou,Chairperson, for the Council
▲ To the top