{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1182/annex/annex-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1182/annex/annex-II.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2016/1182",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (CFSP) 2016/1182 of 18 July 2016 concerning the Staff Regulations of the European Union Institute for Security Studies",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1182",
  "path": "annex/annex/II",
  "kind": "appendix",
  "number": "ANNEX II",
  "heading": "EXPATRIATION ALLOWANCE",
  "text": "1.\nContract staff members so entitled under Article 10 of the Staff Regulations shall receive a monthly expatriation allowance. The amount of the allowance shall be calculated as follows:\n(a)\nContract staff members recruited before the entry into force of the Staff Regulations\n(i) For contract staff members entitled to household allowance: 18 % of the reference salary during the first ten years' service;\n(ii) For contract staff members not entitled to household allowance: 14 % of the reference salary during the first ten years' service.\n(iii) The reference salary shall be the net basic salary payable at step 1 of contract staff members' grades. In years eleven, twelve and thirteen, the rates of 14 % and 18 % shall be reduced by one point per year respectively to 11 % and 15 % and shall remain fixed thereafter.\n(b)\nContract staff members recruited after the entry into force of the Staff Regulations\n(i)\nThe rate of the allowance during the first five years of service shall be 10 percent of basic salary. The allowance shall be calculated on the basis of the first step in the grade of recruitment or promotion, irrespective of any increase in the contract staff member's basic salary by movement up the incremental scale, and shall be adjusted in the same proportions and at the same date as the basic salary.\n(ii)\nIn years six to ten, the rate of the allowance shall be reduced by two percentage points per year to reach zero in year ten. During this period, the allowance shall be adjusted in the same proportions and at the same date as the basic salary.\n(iii)\nIn the event of a staff member of a Coordinated Organisation or an organisation associated to the Coordinated Organisations taking up duty with the Institute or in the event of a staff member of another international organisation or a member of the administration or armed forces of the country of origin taking up duty with the Institute without changing country, the previous service in the host country shall be taken into account when applying points (i) and (ii).\n(iv)\nIn the event of a contract staff member being transferred, either within the Institute or to a Coordinated Organisation or organisation associated to the Coordinated Organisations, to a new duty country where the staff member meets the eligibility criteria, the rate of the allowance and the time period shall be restored to their initial levels and then reduced, as described in points (i) and (ii).\n(v)\nCouples\nWhere spouses or registered partners are both non-resident and are both employed in the same country by the same Coordinated Organisation or organisation associated to the Coordinated Organisations, or by two different Coordinated Organisations or organisations associated to the Coordinated Organisations, they shall each be entitled to an expatriation allowance at the rate of 10 per cent or at the rates on the reduction scale which correspond to the number of each spouse's years of service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2016/1182/annex/annex/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:54.351068+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}