Decision of the Bureau of 11 September 2023 concerning the Implementing Measures for the Statute for Members of the European Parliament and repealing the Decision of the Bureau of 19 May and 9 July 2008

TITLE I EXERCISE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY MANDATE

CHAPTER 1 Salary

Article 1 Entitlement to salary

From the date on which they take up their duties until the last day of the month in which those duties cease, Members of Parliament (‘Members’) shall be entitled to the salary provided for in Article 10 of the Statute for Members of the European Parliament (‘the Statute’).

Article 2 Prohibition of concurrent receipt of salaries

The salary received by a Member for exercising a mandate in another parliament simultaneously with a mandate in Parliament shall be offset against the salary provided for in Article 10 of the Statute.

For the purposes of this Article, ‘another parliament’ shall mean any parliament established in a Member State which has legislative powers to which Article 7(2) of the Act concerning the election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage⁽¹⁾ does not apply.

The calculation shall be based on the total amount of each of the two salaries, before the deduction of tax.

Members shall state in their declarations of financial interests any mandate held within the meaning of paragraph 1, and any salary received as a result of that mandate.3

CHAPTER 2 Medical expenses

Article 3 Recipients of reimbursements and reimbursement procedures

Article 4 Procedure

Article 5 Financing

Article 6 Complaints

CHAPTER 3 Insurance against risks connected with the exercise of the parliamentary mandate

Article 7 General provisions

Article 8 Accident insurance

Article 9 Insurance against loss and theft

CHAPTER 4 Reimbursement of expenses

Section 1 Reimbursement of travel expenses

Subsection 1 Common provisions

Article 10 Entitlement to reimbursement for duty travel

Article 11 Basis for reimbursement

Article 12 Attestation of attendance

Article 13 Travel documents

Article 14 Other supporting documents

Article 15 Amounts reimbursed

Subsection 2 Provisions applicable to ordinary travel expenses

Article 16 Reimbursement and days on which travel is undertaken

Article 17 Routes

Article 18 Arrangements

Article 19 Entitlement to the distance and duration allowances

Article 20 Amount of the distance allowance

Article 21 Amount of the duration allowance

Subsection 3 Provisions governing additional travel and travel in the Member State of election

Article 22 Additional travel expenses

Article 23 Travel expenses incurred in the Member State of election

Section 2 Reimbursement of subsistence expenses

Article 24 Subsistence allowance

Section 3 General provisions

Article 25 Assistance to Members on travel financed by Parliament or a political group

Article 26 Assistance for Members with a disability

Article 27 Periods of absence

Article 28 Implementation of measures adopted pursuant to the Rules of Procedure

CHAPTER 5 Assistance from personal staff

Article 29 Defrayal of parliamentary assistance expenses

Article 30 General principles

Article 31 Financial consequences of a proven case of harassment of an accredited parliamentary assistant

Article 32 Paying agents

Article 33 Arrangements for managing contracts with personal staff

Article 34 Application for defrayal of parliamentary assistance expenses

Article 35 Documents to be submitted in connection with an employment contract

Article 36 Regularisation of accounts

Article 37 Obligations regarding contracts of local assistants

Article 38 Employment contract termination expenses

Article 39 Documents to be submitted in connection with a service contract

Article 40 Extraordinary expenses

Article 41 Non-reimbursable expenses

CHAPTER 6 Provision of equipment and facilities

Article 42 Access to internal services and the provision of equipment and facilities

CHAPTER 7 General expenditure allowance

Article 43 Entitlement to a general expenditure allowance

Article 44 Period covered

Article 45 Payments and periods of absence

Article 46 Expenses covered

Article 47 Principles governing the use of the general expenditure allowance

TITLE II END OF THE PARLIAMENTARY MANDATE

CHAPTER 1 Transitional allowance

Article 48 Entitlement to the transitional allowance

Article 49 Conditions

Article 50 Offsetting of payments

Article 51 Procedure

CHAPTER 2 Old-age pension

Article 52 Entitlement to an old-age pension

Article 53 Prohibition of concurrent receipt of pensions

Article 54 Expiry of old-age pension entitlements

CHAPTER 3 Invalidity pension

Article 55 Entitlement to an invalidity pension

Article 56 Calculation of invalidity pensions

Article 57 Prohibition of concurrent receipt of pensions

Article 58 Offsetting of payments

Article 59 Procedure

Article 60 Invalidity committee

Article 61 Review of invalidity

CHAPTER 4 Survivor’s pension and orphan’s pension

Article 62 Entitlement to a survivor’s pension or orphan’s pension

Article 63 Calculation of the survivor’s pension and orphan’s pension

Article 64 Duration of the survivor’s pension and orphan’s pension

TITLE III GENERAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 1 Payment arrangements

Article 65 Compliance with the Financial Regulation

Article 66 Principle of the use of funds

Article 67 Bank transfer, currencies and conversion rate

Article 68 Bank accounts

Article 69 Payments

CHAPTER 2 Regularisation and recovery

Article 70 Alternative supporting documents

Article 71 Termination of payments made by Parliament

Article 72 Recovery of amounts unduly paid by Parliament

CHAPTER 3 Other general financial provisions

Article 73 Index-linking

Article 74 Taxation

Article 75 Attachment

CHAPTER 4 Final provisions

Article 76 Complaints

Article 77 Electronically scanned supporting documents

Article 78 Calculation of time-limits

Article 79 Notifications

Article 80 Entry into force

Article 81 Repeal

TITLE IV TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Article 82 Survivor’s pension, invalidity pension and old-age pension

Article 83 Additional pension

Article 84 Transitional allowance

Article 85 Members covered by Article 25 or Article 29 of the Statute