# Council Decision (CFSP) 2016/1182 of 18 July 2016 concerning the Staff Regulations of the European Union Institute for Security Studies, Article 23: Home leave

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Contract staff members who are entitled to expatriation allowance shall be eligible to home leave for each period of two years' service.
(a) Home leave shall amount to eight working days.
(b) Home leave may be taken six months before the end of the period to which it relates. If it is not taken within six months after the end of the period to which it relates, it shall be cancelled with respect to that two-year period. The date on which home leave is actually taken for any given two-year period shall not affect the date on which the next home leave is to be taken.
(c) Where spouses, or registered partners, are both employed by the Institute and where both are entitled to home leave, it shall be granted in accordance with the following conditions:
(i) where both have their home in the same country, each shall be entitled to home leave in that country every two years;
(ii) where their homes are in two different countries, each shall be entitled to home leave in his or her respective country every two years;
(iii) spouses or registered partners shall be entitled, with respect to their dependant children and, if appropriate, the person accompanying those children, to only one period of home leave every two years; where the parents have their homes in two different countries, the home leave may be taken in either of those countries.
2. A contract staff member who takes home leave shall be entitled, in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 18, to payment of the return travel expenses for himself or herself, his or her children and, if he or she receives a household allowance, for his or her spouse or registered partner.
3. Contract staff members who do not take their home leave shall have no entitlement to compensation.
4. Home leave shall be granted on the following conditions:
(a) the person concerned must undertake in writing not to resign from the Institute in the six months following the end of the period to which the entitlement to home leave relates, regardless of the date on which that leave is actually taken;
(b) the direct superior must certify that the services of the contract staff member will, in all probability not be required during the period referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1.
The Director may decide to derogate from this paragraph if the Director considers that the strict application of this paragraph would expose the contract staff member concerned to an injustice or to particular difficulties.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2016/1182/annex/article/23 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1182/annex/article-23
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