Assembly/AU/Dec.602(XXVI) Page 2 DECISION ON THE SCALE OF ASSESSMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF FINANCING THE AFRICAN UNION The Assembly, 1. ENDORSES the report of the Executive Council on the scale of assessment and implementation of the alternative sources of financing the African Union and the recommendations thereto; 2. REQUESTS the Executive Council through its Committee on Contributions and Scale of Assessment to continue to develop modalities for the implementation of the Alternative Sources of Financing the African Union and report on progress to the next Ordinary Session of the Assembly in July 2016; 3. WELCOMES: 4. i) The initiative of Angola to be assessed at eight per cent (8%); ii) The decision of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire to increase its assessed contribution to three per cent (3%); iii) The decision of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to increase its assessed contribution to four per cent (4%); iv) The decision of Republic of Kenya to increase its assessed contribution to four point one per cent (4.1%); v) The decision of the Republic of Chad to increase its assessed contribution to United States Dollars (US$) 1.6 Million. DECIDES that: i) All the other Member States will be assessed as per Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.578(XXV) adopted by the 25th Ordinary Session of the Assembly held in Johannesburg, South Africa in June 2015; and that; ii) The attached table on the revised Scale of Assessment will form an integral part of this decision. 5. EXPRESSES ITS GRATITUDE to Member States that have volunteered to share the four per cent (4%) gap of the Scale of Assessment in a spirit of African solidarity and ENCOURAGES Member States to pay their contributions to the Union budget in a timely manner; 6. REQUESTS the Commission to organise a Retreat of Heads of State and Government, Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Ministers of Finance to examine the