AI-assisted research summary: The regulation sets the contribution rate for the Special Unemployment Fund at 0.51% and applies that rate through amendments to the relevant staff employment provisions.
| Official Journal of the European Union | EN L series ---|---|--- * * * | 2025/101 | 31.1.2025 ---|---|--- COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2025/101 of 27 November 2024 adjusting the contributions for the financing of the Special Unemployment Fund set out under Articles 28a and 96 of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to the Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 of the Council of 29 February 1968 laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities and instituting special measures temporarily applicable to officials of the Commission (1), and in particular Article 112 of the Staff Regulations and Articles 28a and 96 of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants, After consulting the Staff Regulations Committee, After consulting the staff representatives from the institutions and other bodies of the European Union, Whereas: (1) | In accordance with Article 28a(11) and Article 96(11) of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants, the Commission has submitted a report (2) on the financial situation of the unemployment benefit scheme for former members of the temporary or contract staff and accredited parliamentary assistants who are unemployed after the termination of their service in a European Union institution. ---|--- (2) | That report shows that taking account of the accumulated balance of the Unemployment Fund during the examined period, an adjustment of the contributions paid by temporary staff, contract staff and accredited parliamentary assistants to the Fund is necessary in the interests of the balance of the scheme. ---|--- (3) | The adjustment of the contributions to the unemployment insurance scheme involves an assessment of complex economic and human resources policy factors. ---|--- (4) | Article 28a(7) and Article 96(7) of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union should therefore be amended accordingly, ---|--- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 The contributions provided for in Article 28a(7) and in Article 96(7) of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union are adjusted to 0,51 % by amending these provisions as follows: (1) | The second sentence of Article 28a(7) is replaced by the following: ‘That contribution shall be set at 0,51 % of the basic salary of the person concerned after deducting a standard allowance of EUR 1 585,45 and without taking account of the correction coefficients provided for in Article 64 of the Staff Regulations.’ ---|--- (2) | The second sentence of Article 96(7) is replaced by the following: ‘That contribution shall be set at 0,51 % of the basic salary of the person concerned after deducting a standard allowance of EUR 1 189,08 and without taking account of the correction coefficients provided for in Article 64 of the Staff Regulations.’ ---|--- Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the first day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 27 November 2024. For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN * * * (1) OJ L 56, 4.3.1968, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/1968/259(1)/oj. (2) Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council – 2017-2022 report on the financial situation of the unemployment benefit scheme for former members of the temporary or contract staff and accredited parliamentary assistants who are unemployed after the termination of their service in a European Union institution (COM(2024) 54 of 6 February 2024). * * * ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2025/101/oj ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition) * * *