Article 1

F1Officials

• paid from appropriations in the research and investment budget and employed in an establishment of the Joint Research Centre or in indirect action, or

• paid from appropriations in the operating budget and employed to run or supervise technical installations or employed in a safety and security department, another service involved in performing safety and security functions, an information and communication technology (ICT) services department, a department providing support for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)/European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) operations or for emergency and crisis coordination arrangements or in services where there is a confirmed necessity for regular standby services for the execution of tasks in the framework of a mechanism established to provide assistance to Member States 24 hours a day,

shall be entitled to an allowance when they are regularly required to carry out standby duty in accordance with Article 56b of the Staff Regulations.

The allowance shall be determined as follows :

No allowance shall be granted for stand-by duty at home if the actual period of duty does not amount to at least 14 hours.

An official who can show that for a period not exceeding one month he was prevented from doing stand-by duty at the place of employment as a result of illness or accident, or because he was on annual leave, shall retain his entitlement to the allowance. If he is prevented from doing stand-by duty for more than one month owing to sickness or accident, his entitlement to the allowance shall be suspended at the end of the first month until he resumes work.

For the period referred to in the previous subparagraph, the official shall be entitled to an allowance of 42 points for each day of absence due to sickness or accident for which he has a medical certificate, or for each day of annual leave.