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[ 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    
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