# Council Decision (EU) 2016/1351 of 4 August 2016 concerning the Staff Regulations of the European Defence Agency, and repealing Decision 2004/676/EC, Article 132

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

In accordance with conditions to be laid down by the Agency, a member of the contract staff may request the Agency to effect any payments which he is required to make in order to constitute or maintain pension rights, unemployment insurance, invalidity insurance, life insurance and sickness insurance in the country where he has last been covered by such schemes. The Agency may also decide to effect any payments which a member of the contract staff is required to make in order to constitute or maintain pension rights in his country of origin, even in absence of request from such member of the contract staff. In such case, the Agency must duly justify its decision. During the period of these contributions, the contract staff member shall not benefit from the Agency sickness insurance scheme. Moreover, for the period corresponding to these contributions, the contract staff member shall not be covered by the Agency life assurance and invalidity schemes and shall not acquire rights under the Agency unemployment insurance and pension schemes.
The actual period of such payments for any contract staff member shall not exceed six months.
However, the Agency may decide to extend this period to one year. The payments shall be charged to the budget of the Agency. Payments to constitute or maintain pension rights shall not exceed twice the rate provided for in Article 90.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2016/1351/article/132 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1351/article-132
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