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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-471/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2013/471",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 23 September 2013 on the granting of daily allowances to and the reimbursement of travelling expenses of members of the European Economic and Social Committee and their alternates (2013/471/EU)",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision\nof 23 September 2013\non the granting of daily allowances to and the reimbursement of travelling expenses of members of the European Economic and Social Committee and their alternates\n(2013/471/EU)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the third paragraph of Article 301 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nCouncil Decision 81/121/EEC laid down rules on the granting of daily allowances to and the reimbursement of travelling expenses of members of the European Economic and Social Committee (‘the Committee’), alternates and experts.\n(2)\nIn its resolution of 10 May 2012, the European Parliament noted that the Bureau of the Committee undertook to reform the system for reimbursing expenses to members of the Committee and their alternates.\n(3)\nOn 12 October 2012, the Committee requested the Council to adopt a new Decision on the granting of daily allowances and the reimbursement of travelling expenses of members of the Committee and their alternates, repealing and replacing Decision 81/121/EEC.\n(4)\nThe amounts of the daily allowances paid to members of the Committee and their alternates should be adapted. Provision should also be made for a system for the reimbursement of transport expenses on the basis of actual costs, as well as for allowances compensating for the time spent by those members and their alternates in performance of their duties and for related administrative costs.\n(5)\nWhere appropriate, detailed rules relating to the granting of allowances, the reimbursement of travelling expenses and the setting of the reimbursement ceilings for travelling expenses should be established at the level of the Committee.\n(6)\nIn order to guarantee an appropriate degree of continuity for the members of the Committee and their alternates, transitional rules should be provided for.\n(7)\nDecision 81/121/EEC should therefore be repealed,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Decision 81/121/EEC of 3 March 1981 on the granting of daily allowances and the reimbursement of travelling expenses of members of the Economic and Social Committee, alternates and experts (OJ L 67, 12.3.1981, p. 29)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 286, 17.10.2012, p. 110."
    }
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