Co-ordinated Organisation

The expression Co-ordinated Organisation refers to several intergovermental organisations that have a common system of remuneration and pensions, and who are members of the Co-ordination System.

List of Co-ordinated Organisations

There are currently six members of the Co-ordinated Organisations. On 31 March 2010, the Western European Union was dissolved by the ten member countries and its competences were transferred to the European Union. EUMETSAT joined Co-ordination on 1 July 2012.

Role of Co-ordination

The Co-ordinated Organisation system includes three different Committees:

The Co-ordinating Committee on Remuneration,
The Committee of Representatives of the Secretaries/ Directors General,
The Committee of Staff Representatives.

The three committees meet separately, as well as in bilateral and tripartite meetings.
The main role of the CCR is advisory and is to make recommendations on remuneration and pension-related matters to Councils of the Co-ordinated Organisations. Although all member countries of each organisation may participate in the committee, many choose for different reasons not to do so. Representatives generally come from the respective governments' Finance, Interior or Foreign Ministries, or from national delegations to one of the Co-ordinated Organisations.
The CRSG is composed of the Heads of Administration of the different organisations or of their representatives in charge of remuneration matters. The CRSG prepares proposals and documents on remuneration and pensions for discussion in tripartite, bilateral or individual meetings of the committees.
The CRP includes staff of the different organisations and are represented at tripartite meetings with the CCR and the CRSG. The CRP has a consultative role.
The principal aim of the Co-ordination system is to provide recommendations on issues concerning salaries and allowances to the Governing bodies of the Co-ordinated Organisations, in order to remove separate detailed discussions on these issues from each of them, as well as from their budget committees. These recommendations concern particularly:

Basic salary scales, and the method of their adjustment, for all categories of staff and for all member countries where there are active staff or recipients of a pension;
Pension Scheme Rules;

They also provide recommendations concerning the function, amount and the method of adjustment of the:

Expatriation allowance,
Household allowance,
Installation allowance,
Dependant's allowance,
Daily subsistence allowance,
Kilometric allowance,
Expatriated child allowance,
Education allowance,
Allowance for a handicapped child.

The Co-ordinated Organisations have technical support section based in Paris at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: the .
The ISRP is responsible for the management and review of all matters pertaining to the remuneration of staff and the Pension Scheme common to the Co-ordinated Organisations. The Service is made up of four Units, whose functions revolve around four key activities:

pensions administration;
studies and analysis;
the management of pension reserve funds; and
overseeing the secretariat of the statutory consultation bodies of the Co-ordinated Organisations.

There are also 25 non co-ordinated international organisations employing over 13 000 staff members which either apply the Co-ordinated scales, or follow them closely.

Linguistic rules of the coordinated organisations

Source: "Rapport d'Information déposé par la délégation de l'Assemblée Nationale pour l'Union Européenne sur la diversité linguistique", of Michel Herbillon, member of the French National Assembly.

Organisation	Official languages	Recognized Working languages	Used language
Council of Europe	English, French	English, French, German, Italian, Russian	English, French
ECMWF	English, French, German	English, French, German	English
ESA	English, French	English, French	English, French
EUMETSAT	English, French	English, French	English
NATO	English, French	English, French	English
OECD	English, French	English, French	English, French

Other non-member institutions that observe similar rules

Around 25 "non-coordinated" international organisations follow the Co-ordinated scales or use them as a benchmark.

INSTITUTION	HQ	www
CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research	Meyrin	http://public.web.cern.ch/
ECO European Communications Office	Copenhagen	http://www.ero.dk
ECS Energy Charter Secretariat	Brussels	http://www.encharter.org
EFTA European Free Trade Association	Geneva	http://www.efta.int
EMBL European Molecular Biology Laboratory	Heidelberg	http://www.embl.org
EPO European Patent Organisation	Munich	http://www.epo.org
ESO European Southern Observatory	Garching near Munich	http://www.eso.org
EUREKA E!	Brussels	http://www.eurekanetwork.org
EU SatCen European Union Satellite Centre	Torrejón de Ardoz near Madrid	http://www.satcen.europa.eu
GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility	Copenhagen	https://www.gbif.org
HCCH Hague Conference on Private International Law	The Hague	http://www.hcch.net
HFSPO Human Frontier Science Program Organization	Strasbourg	http://www.hfsp.org/
ICC	The Hague
ITER	Saint-Paul-les-Durance	http://www.iter.org
NASCO North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization	Edinburgh	https://web.archive.org/web/20110501054735/http://www.nasco.int/
OCCAR Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation	Bonn	https://web.archive.org/web/20061109052613/http://www.occar-ea.org/
OSPAR Oslo and Paris Commissions	London	http://www.ospar.org
PCA Permanent Court of Arbitration	The Hague	http://www.pca-cpa.org
SPC	Noumea
UNIDROIT International Institute for the Unification of Private Law	Rome	https://web.archive.org/web/20050820161131/http://www.unidroit.org/
WCO World Customs Organization	Brussels	http://www.wcoomd.org/
WTO World Trade Organization	Geneva	http://www.wto.org
CEB	Paris	http://www.coebank.org/
OBS	Strasbourg
IEA	Paris
NEA	Paris