REVISION OF THE RULES ON THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES FOR AWARDING WELFARE GRANTS AND LOANS - COMMISSION DECISION⁽¹⁾

This administrative notice concerns officials in active service and temporary and contractual staff of the European Commission during the term of their contract or after its expiry as laid down in Articles 30 and 98 of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants⁽²⁾.

Commission staff may receive a loan or non-refundable assistance where warranted by the particularly difficult social and material position of those concerned, resulting from extremely serious circumstances which are not of the applicant's making⁽³⁾. All other reasonable solutions must have been considered in detail beforehand.

Applications for loans or assistance must be made in writing to the welfare officers of the units responsible for welfare policy and psychosocial interventions within the Directorate-General for Personnel and Administration (in Brussels and Luxembourg) or to the welfare officer of the applicant’s place of employment. The application forms can be obtained from the welfare officers. The welfare officer will examine the social circumstances relating to the application, and once the file has been completed, submit it anonymously for an opinion to the Joint Advisory Committee for Welfare Loans and Assistance (CCOPS). The decision will be taken by the appointing authority responsible for applying Article 76 of the Staff Regulations (Head of Unit ADMIN/C/1).

Following the Commission decision to replace the provisions in force on welfare grants and loans and on the operation of the CCOPS, the new provisions entered into force on 11 November 2008.

The new provisions are available at the following websites:

A la Commission: http://www.cc.cec/pers_admin/social_bxl/social/funds_en.html
A partir du domicile: https://intracomm.ec.europa.eu/pers_admin/social_bxl/social/funds_en.html#2

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Footnotes

⁽¹⁾ Commission Decision of 11 November 2008 on the reorganisation of the Joint Advisory Committee on Welfare Grants and Loans (CCOPS) - formerly the Advisory Committee on Welfare Grants and Loans - and the revision of the rules on the conditions and procedures for awarding such exceptional assistance (C/2008/6610).

⁽²⁾ Pensioners of the Community Institutions receiving very similar specific assistance of an interinstitutional nature (‘welfare assistance for pensioners’) on the basis of Article 76 of the Staff Regulations are not covered by this Decision.

⁽³⁾ See Article 76 of the Staff Regulations.