1. Ag. No. 07 International collaboration
Doc.A6465/17/05
Ag. No. 07 International collaboration
Working Group on Articles A64 and A65 of the Staff Regulations
Meeting in Luxembourg March 2017

2. Content of this presentation
Reminder of context: MoU 2009
Main areas of collaboration Apr.2016 – Mar.2017
Next steps

3. Memorandum of Understanding 2009
Between main international groupings
Facing similar management and measurement issues for remuneration of secretariat staff
Goal: effectiveness, efficiency, economy
MoU 2009
European Commission - Remuneration Statistics for Administrative Purposes (ESTAT.C3)
United Nations - International Civil Service Commission (UN.ICSC)
Coordinated Organisations - International Section Remuneration and Prices (CO.ISRP)

4. Data sharing Intra EU Extra EU ESTAT-C3 28 +5 non capital 9 CO.ISRP -
(TR, IS, NO, CH, AL, BA, MK, ME, RS)
CO.ISRP - 7
(AUS, CAN, JAP, KOR, MEX, NZL, USA)
UN.ICSC
ESMAD, FRPAR, ITROM, ATVIE, UKLON
HQ = USANYC, USAWDC, CANMON, CHGEN,
19 = Grp 1
4 = Grp 2
126 Grp 2
Contract 2
(Taiwan, NewCaledonia)

5. Main collaboration 2016 to Mar.2017 (7th year)
Harmonised FBS questionnaire:
coordinate FBS launch Sept.2016 in ES, IT, AT
ESTAT+ISRP already surveyed FR, UK
Exchange Extra-EU price survey data
EU-CO PPP80 (AUS, CAN, JAP, KOR, MEX, NZL, USAWDC)
EU-UN xP2P (part of 5 year cycle), 178xCPI
Exchange Intra-EU price survey data
EU-UN E15-1 & E15-2 avpr, E16-1 & E16-2 specs
CO-UN rents

6. UN use of ECP price data UN HQ price surveys in autumn 2016:
USANYC, USAWDC, CANMON, CHGEN
ES, FR, IT, AT, UK = use ECP data from Eurostat ► Feb.2017 quantify impact of switch
Research programme:
Outlet-type consistency report (Eurostat)
Top-up survey in Brussels (Eurostat)
UN type survey in Brussels (to compare ECP)
Similar comparison USAWDC and CHGEN
Impact of using subset rather than full list
Impact of non-ECP prices (= 15% list)

7. Next steps Research programme
Eurostat integrate UN FBS data to produce better Extra-EU aggregation weights
UN extend use of ECP price data to rest of EU28
Collaboration on mission expenses
Follow up benchmarking study (A65)

8. Thank you for your attention!