CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

Proposal for Resolution No 2/XI

The Cooperation and Defence Agreement between the Portuguese Republic and the United States of the

America, in the part concerning the Laboral Agreement, requires a punctual adjustment to the system of

calculation of the wage increases of Portuguese workers from the Lajes Base, whose

application had generated a stalemate that dragged on for years and affected the good environment in the

labour relations of that Base.

This Agreement shall allow for the calculation of the wage increases of the employees of the

Base of the Lajes in the function of a simpler, clear and transparent system, eliminating the

Wage Survey and applying the largest of two possible increase percentages, or that of the

Portuguese public function or that of the civil servants of the Department of Defense of the

United States of America, also ensuring the principle of non-reducibility of these

same salaries.

It should be considered, too, the importance that the Base of the Lajes takes in the framework of the

objectives of the Portuguese State policy of active participation in the preservation of the link

trans-Atlantic, as a key instrument of sharing responsibility in the

conflict prevention and the strengthening of collective security, specifically in the framework of the

Atlantic Alliance, as well as in the framework of the bet on cooperative security,

specifically in the framework of relations with their traditional allies, among which the

United States of America, to which the league the Agreement on Cooperation and Defense.

Now, this Agreement simultaneously accompanies the particular interests of workers

Portuguese from the Base of Lajes and the interests of the Portuguese state in defence and

of external relations.

CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

Thus:

Under the terms of the paragraph d) of Article 197 (1) of the Constitution, the Government presents to the

Assembly of the Republic the following motion for a resolution:

Approve the Agreement that modifies the Integrated Laboratory Agreement in the Cooperation Agreement and

Defence between the Portuguese Republic and the United States of America, signed in 1 of

June 1995, signed in Lisbon on July 11, 2009, the text of which, in the versions

authenticated in the Portuguese and English languages, it publishes in attachment.

Seen and approved in Council of Ministers of January 7, 2010

The Prime Minister

The Minister of State and Foreign Affairs

The Minister of the Presidency

The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs