LETTER OF IMPLEMENTATION NO. 81, February 12, 1979

[ LETTER OF IMPLEMENTATION NO. 81, February 12, 1979 ]

INCREASING DFA INDEX ON OVERSEAS AND LIVING QUARTERS ALLOWANCES OF FOREIGN SERVICE PERSONNEL IN AUSTRIA, BELGUIM, FRANCE, GERMANY, JAPAN, SWITZERLAND AND VIETNAM

TO : The Minister of Foreign Affairs

The Acting Minister of the Budget

Heads of Ministries and Agencies with Staff Members Stationed Abroad

WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 1285 establishes the Foreign Service Compensation Plan for staff members of the national government who are stationed abroad;

WHEREAS, Letter of Implementation 63 provides the necessary rules and regulations to be observed in the payment of compensation for personnel of the national government stationed abroad;

WHEREAS, Section 4.3.2 of the aforesaid Letter of Implementation 63 authorizes the Permanent Committee created for the purspose of P.D. 1285 to recommend to the President/ Prime Minister such adjustments in the MFA Index as may be warranted by changes in the exchange rates and price levels in the affected post of assignment;

WHEREAS, in view of the continuing serious decline in the value of the United States dollar against such currencies as the Austrian schilling, Belgian franc, French franc, German Deutschemark, Japanese yen, Swiss franc and Vietnam dong, officers and employees of the Philippine Foreign Service establishments in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and Vietnam have been experiencing serious financial difficulties resulting from the severe reduction in the purchasing power of the United States dollar;

WHEREAS, such losses in purchasing power are particularly onerous for officers and employees in the Foreign Service establishments above-mentioned due to the unusually high cost of living in those countries;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President/Prime Minister of the Philippines, do hereby approve the recommendation of the Permanent Committee to increase the MFA Index contained in Letter of Implementation 63 in sofar as the overseas and living quarters allowances for the Foreign Service posts in Austria Belguim, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and Vietnam are concerned, as follows:

Overseas Allowance

Living Quarters Allowance

Country and Post From

To

From

To

Austria

Vienna 155%

185%

160%

185%

Belguim

Brussels 155

185

160

185

France

Paris 160

185

160

185

Germany

Bonn 160

195

160

195

Hamburg 160

195

160

195

Japan

Kobe 160

280

160

280

Tokyo 160

280

160

280

Switzerland

Berne 160

225

160

225

Geneva 160

235

160

235

Vietnam

Hanoi 100

115

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This Order shall take effect on 1 September 1978.

Done in the City of Manila, this 12th day of February in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JACOBO C. CLAVE

Presidential Executive Assistant