Article 1

These rules shall apply to:

The authorising officers for commitments shall specifically try to ensure that interviews are organised in such a way as to enable interviewees to benefit from the most economical travel rates.

The authorising officers for payments shall scrutinise particularly closely any requests for reimbursement involving abnormally expensive flights. They shall have the right to carry out any checks that might be needed and to request any proof from the interviewees required for this purpose. They shall also have the right, where it appears to be justified, to restrict reimbursement to the rates normally applied to the usual journey from the interviewees’ point of origin to the meeting place.

Where, taking into account any expenses incurred by disabled interviewees as a result of their disability or any person accompanying them, the allowances provided for in Article 3 appear to be clearly inadequate, the expenses shall be reimbursed at the request of the responsible authorising officer on presentation of supporting documents.

The ERCEA shall not be liable for any material, non-material or physical damage suffered by invited interviewees or those responsible for accompanying a disabled interviewees in the course of their journey to or stay in the place where the interview is held, unless such harm is directly attributable to the ERCEA.

In particular, invited interviewees who use their own means of transport for travelling to such interviews shall be entirely liable for any accidents that they might cause.