Anukret May 28, 1997 Procedures for management of Civil employees

ANUKRET DATED MAY 28, 1997

ESTABLISHING THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES

OF THE PROCEDURES FOR THE MANAGEMENTOF STATE CIVIL EMPLOYEES

Translation certified by the Council of Jurists

020-ANK-BK

The Royal Government of Cambodia,

having seen the 1993 Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia;

having seen Kret dated September 24, 1993 on the appointment of the First Prime Minister and the Second Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia;

having seen Kret dated November 1, 1993 on the appointment of the Royal Government of Cambodia;

having seen Kram NS-RKM-0794-002 dated July 20, 1994 on the organization and functioning of the Council of Ministers;

having seen Kret NS-RKT-1094-083 dated October 24, 1994 on the modification of the composition of the Royal Government of Cambodia;

having seen Kret NS-RKT-1094-090 dated October 31, 1994 on the modification of the composition of the Royal Government of Cambodia;

having seen Kram NS-RKM-1094-006 dated October 30, 1994 on the Common Statute of Civil Servants of the Kingdom of Cambodia;

having seen Kram NS-RKM-0196-024 dated January 24, 1996 on the creation of the Secretariat of State of the Civil Service;

having seen Kram NS-RKM-0196-018 dated January 24, 1996 on the creation of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance;

having seen Anukret 082-ANK-BK dated November 16, 1995 on the general regulations for public accounting;

upon the proposal of the Secretary of State of the Civil Service;

the Council of Ministers having heard;

decides:

CHAPTER I

ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL PROCEDURES OF MANAGEMENT OF THE

CIVIL EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE

Article 1:

Drafts of decisions concerning the management of civil employees of the State, including krets, anukrets and prakas, shall be undertaken at the central administrations level by the Director of Human Resources Management concerned, on standard computerized documentation specifying particularly the identification number of the employee. Commencing from the date of implementation of the pilot system for computerized management, the decisions written on stencils or with any manual support shall be considered void.

Article 2:

The above-mentioned decisions shall be subject to financial and administrative controls handled respectively by the Secretariat of State of the Civil Service and by the Financial Control Service of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Such controls shall be undertaken by visas. If they concern krets or anukrets, visas shall appear in the citations of the texts. If they concern prakas, visas shall be affixed directly on texts to the left of the signature of the Minister concerned.

Article 3:

Salaries and benefits provided to State public agents shall be settled and paid by the accountant of the Treasury, without a prior order to pay. Settlement shall be realized through a central computer supporting the management system under the control of the Treasury acting as the public accountant. It shall ensure the control of payroll operations by checking supporting vouchers then, after having produced the payrolls, forwarding them to each Department of Human Resources Management concerned.

Regulating orders shall be printed by the computer simultaneously with the payrolls, which shall be signed by the financial controller. They shall then be signed by the Ministers comptroller or the Governors concerned.

The payment shall be made by paying agents under the control of the Treasury.

Article 4:

Prakas of the Minister of Economy and Finance and of the Secretary of State of the Civil Service shall establish implementation procedures for this Anukret, and particularly the detailed description of applicable procedures for each type for management decision.

CHAPTER II

TRANSITORY MEASURES

Article 5:

During the testing period of the computerized system of administrative management, and in the event that the implementation of this system is not ultimately realized, then the existing manual system shall remain in force.

Article 6:

In the beginning, the new management system shall be put into place within the ministries that are already equipped. Regarding the ministries that are not already equipped with computer terminals in their own management services, self-service equipment shall be put at their disposal by the secretariat of state of the civil service.

Article 7:

Procedures for managing civil employees of the State shall not come into effect, within each ministry, until after their own validation of the data contained in the computerized database, which shall be subject to the control and supervision of the Secretariat of State of the Civil Service.

CHAPTER III

FINAL DISPOSITIONS

Article 8:

Provisions contrary to this Anukret are hereby revoked.

Article 9:

The Co-Ministers in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers, all Ministers and Secretaries of State concerned shall be responsible for the enforcement of this Anukret from the date of its signature.

Phnom Penh, May 28, 1997

The First Prime Minister

Norodom Ranariddh

The Second Prime Minister

Hun Sen

Presented for the signature of the First Prime Minister and the Second Prime Minister,

The Secretary of State of the Civil Service,

Prak Sok