{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1977-495/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1977-495/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1977/495",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 495/77 of 8 March 1977 determining the categories of officials entitled to, and the conditions for and rates of, allowances for regular stand-by duty",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1977-495",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Officials\npaid from appropriations in the research and investment budget and employed in an establishment of the Joint Research Centre or in indirect action, or\npaid 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,\nshall be entitled to an allowance when they are regularly required to carry out standby duty in accordance with Article 56b of the Staff Regulations.\nThe allowance shall be determined as follows :\n(a) the allowance shall be expressed in points. A point shall be equal to 0,032 % of the basic salary of an official in grade 1, step 1 . The allowance shall be adjusted by the weighting applicable to the official's remuneration;\n(b) the number of points per hour of actual stand-by duty shall be :\nfor stand-by duty at the place of employment : 11 for working days and 22 for Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays ;\nfor stand-by duty at home : 2·15 for working days and 4·3 for Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.\n2. 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.\n3. 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.\nFor 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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1945/2006 of 11 December 2006 amending Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 495/77 determining the categories of officials entitled to, and the conditions for and rates of, allowances for regular standby duty."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Substituted by Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 859/2004 of 29 April 2004 amending Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 495/77 determining the categories of officials entitled to, and the conditions for and rates of, allowances for regular standby duty."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the period from 1 May 2004 to 30 April 2006 : grade D*1, step 1;"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1977/495/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:09:34.047210+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."
}