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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-747/attachment-1/article-11",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2009/747",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision 2009/747/CFSP of 14 September 2009 concerning the Staff Regulations of the European Union Satellite Centre",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-747",
  "path": "attachment/1/article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Family and social allowances",
  "text": "1. General rules\nThe allowances provided for under this Article and similar allowances to which a married couple, or an unmarried staff member, are entitled from another source, shall not be cumulative.\nAny staff member who is in receipt of, or entitled to, an allowance similar to those provided for under this Article, from other sources, is to inform the Centre’s Administration Division accordingly, in order that a corresponding reduction be made in the allowances granted to him by the Centre.\nThe Centre’s administration shall be entitled to request any official documents that it deems necessary to establish a right to any allowance.\nThe Director may adopt implementing rules in respect of these provisions.\n2. Household allowance\n(a) A household allowance shall be granted and paid monthly to any staff member who:\n(i) is married;\n(ii) is widowed, divorced, legally separated or single and has at least one dependant within the meaning of Annex III to these Staff Regulations;\n(iii) is registered as a stable non-marital partner, provided that:\nthe couple produce a legal document recognised as such from a competent authority of a Member State, acknowledging their status as non-marital partners,\nneither partner is in a marital relationship or in another non-marital relationship,\nthe partners are not related in any of the following ways: parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, son-in-law, daughter-in-law.\n(b) This allowance shall be equal to 6 % of net basic salary and cannot be lower than the amount payable to staff members in grade B 3, step 1.\n(c) In the case of:\n(i) a married staff member who has no dependants but whose spouse is gainfully employed; or\n(ii) a staff member who is registered as a stable non-marital partner, as defined in point (a)(iii), and who has no dependants, but whose partner is gainfully employed;\nthe allowance shall be the difference between the net basic salary for grade B 3 step 1 plus the allowance to which the staff member would be entitled in theory, and the earned income of the spouse or registered partner. If the latter amount is equal to or greater than the former, no allowance shall be payable.\nThis allowance shall not be paid to a staff member whose spouse or registered partner is a member of an international organisation and has a higher basic salary than the staff member.\n3. Children’s and other dependants’ allowance\n(a) A children’s and other dependants’ allowance shall be granted and paid monthly to any staff member who mainly and continuously maintains children or other dependants as defined in Annex III.\n(b) The allowance shall be a fixed amount for each dependant, set each year in the scales approved by the Board.\n(c) Where both spouses or registered partners work for international organisations, the allowance shall be paid to whichever of them is in receipt of household allowance or equivalent.\n(d) The definitions and the conditions under which the allowance is granted are set out in Annex III.\n4. Education allowance\n(a) An education allowance shall be granted and paid monthly to any staff member who is entitled to household allowance, and whose dependant children, as defined in Annex III, are in kindergarten, full-time primary, secondary or higher education.\n(b) The allowance shall be equal to twice the amount of the dependant child’s allowance, and shall be payable for each child.\n(c) The staff member concerned shall provide to the Centre’s administration all supporting evidence at the beginning of each school year.\n5. Handicapped children’s and other dependants’ allowance\n(a) A handicapped children’s and other dependants’ allowance shall be granted and paid monthly for handicapped children or dependants to any staff member who is primarily and continuously responsible for their care. The child or dependant must fulfil the criteria and conditions set out in Annex III.\n(b) The details of allocation and payment of the allowance are given in Annex IV.\n6. Rent allowance\n(a) A rent allowance shall be paid monthly to grades B, C, A 1 and A 2 staff members who are tenants or sub-tenants of accommodation and who pay a rent — excluding service charges considered to be the liability of the tenant in the country of residence — that exceeds a specified proportion of their emoluments.\n(b) The method of calculating the allowance is set out in Annex V.\n(c) Staff members in receipt of rent allowance shall inform the Head of Administration and Personnel immediately of any change in their circumstances that could affect their eligibility for the allowance.\n7. Transport allowance\nSince the duty station is remote from residential areas and the Centre is located in a military base which is not served by public transport, staff members shall receive a flat-rate monthly transport allowance. The amount of the allowance shall be set by the Director at the beginning of each calendar year.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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