Co-ordinated organisations

The expression coordinated organizations refers to several European intergovernmental organizations that have a common system of remuneration and pension. They are independent but have a common method of adjusting their salary scales. They also have two common technical support sections based in Paris at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: the Inter-organisation Study Section on Salaries and Prices (IOS)^[1] and the Joint Pension Administration Section (JPAS).^[2]

List of coordinated organizations

The coordinated organizations were six until 31 March 2010, when the ten member countries of the Western European Union decided to terminate the WEU and transfer its competences to the European Union.

• The Council of Europe (CoE)^[3]
• The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)^[4]
• The European Space Agency (ESA) ^[5]
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)^[6]
• The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)^[7]
  • The Western European Union (WEU)^[8]

Linguistic rules of the coordinated organizations

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.

Organization	Official languages	Recognized Working languages	Most used language(s)
Council of Europe	English, French	English, French, German, Italian, Russian	English
ECMWF[9]	English, French, German	English, French, German	English
ESA[10]	English, French	English, French	English
NATO	English, French[Note 1]	English, French	English
OECD	English, French	English, French	English
Western European Union[11]	Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish	English, French	English

Other non-member institutions that observe similar rules

Around 25 "non-coordinated" international organisations, employing a total of 9000 employees, follow the co-ordinated scales or use them as a benchmark.

The following list is not exhaustive^[12]:

INSTITUTION	HQ	www
CERN European Centre for Nuclear Research	Meyrin (Canton of Geneva)	http://public.web.cern.ch/
ECO European Communications Office (Cf. European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations)	Copenhagen (Denmark)	http://www.ero.dk
ECS Energy Charter Secretariat (European Energy Charter)	Brussels (Belgium)	http://www.encharter.org
EFTA European Free Trade Association	Geneva (Switzerland)	http://www.efta.int
EMBL European Molecular Biology Laboratory	Heidelberg (Germany)	http://www.embl.org
EPO European Patent Office	Munchen (Germany)	http://www.epo.org
ESO European Southern Observatory	Garching near Munich (Germany)	http://www.eso.org
EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites)	Darmstadt (Germany)	www.eumetsat.int
EUREKA E!	Brussels (Belgium)	http://www.eurekanetwork.org
GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility	Copenhagen (Denmark)	http://www.gbif.org
HCCH Hague Conference on Private International Law	The Hague (Netherlands)	http://www.hcch.net
HFSPO Human Frontier Science Program Organization	Strasbourg (France)	http://www.hfsp.org/
ICC (International Criminal Court)	The Hague (Netherlands)	www2.icc-cpi.int
ITER	Saint-Paul-les-Durance (France)	http://www.iter.org
NASCO North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization	Edinburgh (United Kingdom)	http://www.nasco.int
OCCAR Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation	Bonn (Germany)	http://www.occar-ea.org/
OSPAR Oslo and Paris Commissions	London	http://www.ospar.org
PCA Permanent Court of Arbitration	The Hague (Netherlands)	http://www.pca-cpa.org
SPC (Secretariat of the Pacific Community)	Noumea (Nouvelle-Caledonie, France)	www.spc.int
UNIDROIT International Institute for the Unification of Private Law	Rome (Italy)	http://www.unidroit.org
WCO World Customs Organisation	Brussels (Belgium)	http://www.wcoomd.org/
WTO World Trade Organisation	Geneva (Switzerland)	http://www.wto.org
CEB (Council of Europe Development Bank)	Paris (France)	http://www.coebank.org/ www.coe.int
OBS (European Audiovisual Observatory )	Strasbourg (France)	www.coe.int
IEA (International Energy Agency)	Paris (France)	www.oecd.org
NEA (Nuclear Energy Agency)	Paris (France)	www.oecd.org

External links, notes and references

1. ^ "Inter Organisations Section". Inter Organisations Section. OECD. http://www.sio-ios.org/. Retrieved 30 March 2011. 
2. ^ "Section of Pensions, technical organ of the coordinated organizations". Section of Pensions, technical organ of the coordinated organizations. OECD. http://www.scap-jpas.org/. Retrieved 30 March 2011. 
3. ^ Official site of the CoE.
4. ^ Official site of the ECMWF.
5. ^ Official site of the European space agency.
6. ^ Official site of the NATO.
7. ^ Official site of the OECD.
8. ^ Official site of the Western European Union.
9. ^ "ECMWF employment rules". ECMWF employment rules. ECMWF. http://www.ecmwf.int/newsevents/employment. Retrieved 30 March 2011. 
10. ^ "ESA employment rules". ESA employment rules. ESA. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Careers_at_ESA/index.html. Retrieved 30 March 2011. 
11. ^ Title X of the Charter of the Assembly and article 21 of Internal Rules
12. ^ List of "non-coordinated international organisations.

Notes

1. ^ according to article 9 of the North Atlantic Treaty: "English and French shall be the official languages for the entire North Atlantic Treaty Organization"; and to the North Atlantic Treaty Article 14: "(..) the English and French texts [of the Treaty] are equally authentic (...)"

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