{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1962-31/article-66a",
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  "legislation": "eur/1962/31",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation No 31 (EEC), 11 (EAEC), laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1962-31",
  "path": "article/66a",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "66a",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. By way of derogation from Article 3(1) of Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 260/68 and in order to take account, without prejudice to Article 65(3), of the application of the method for updating the remuneration and pensions of officials, a temporary measure regarding remuneration paid by the Union to staff in active employment, to be known as the ‘solidarity levy’, shall be applied from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2023.\n2. The rate of this solidarity levy, which shall apply to the base defined in paragraph 3, shall be 6 %. The rate shall however be 7 % for officials in grade AD 15, step 2, and above.\n3. (a) The base for the solidarity levy shall be the basic salary used to calculate remuneration, minus:\n(i)social security and pension contributions and the tax, before solidarity levy, payable by an official in the same grade and step without dependants within the meaning of Article 2 of Annex VII, and\n(ii)an amount equal to the basic salary of an official in grade AST 1, step 1.\n(b) The components used to determine the base for the solidarity levy shall be expressed in euro and weighted at 100.\n4. The solidarity levy shall be deducted monthly at source; the proceeds shall be entered as revenue in the general budget of the European Union.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1023/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 amending the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1962/31/article/66a",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:00.570864+00:00"
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  "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."
}