Article 11 Special allowances

Members of the Committee and external experts invited on the initiative of the Commission shall be entitled to a special allowance of a maximum of EUR 450 in the form of a daily unit cost for each full working day. The total allowance shall be calculated and rounded upwards to the amount corresponding to the nearest half working day. The payment shall be made in euro.

Travel and subsistence expenses incurred by participants in the activities of the Committee shall be reimbursed by the Commission in accordance with the applicable provisions^f1. Those expenses shall be reimbursed within the limits of the available appropriations allocated under the annual procedure for the allocation of resources.

Article 11(1) shall only come into effect on the date on which members are appointed for the next term of office of the Committee in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 3.