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Rh the Office, an allowance for traveling and other expenses. They shall also receive an attendance counter for each meeting which they attend.

The Committee shall fix the amount to be set aside annually from its budget for a fund intended to secure a retirement pension for the Office force.

The Committee shall draw up its annual estimates and shall approve the account of expenditures. It shall make the organic regulations governing the personnel, as well as all the arrangements necessary for the performance of the duties of the Office.

The regulations as well as the arrangements shall be reported by the Committee to the participant States and cannot be modified without their assent.

A statement of the financial management of the Office shall be submitted annually to the participant States at the close of the fiscal year.