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1. Officials - Remuneration - Family allowances - Education allowance - Conditions for granting

(Staff Regulations of Officials, Annex VII, Art. 3)

2. Officials - Remuneration - Family allowances - Dependent child allowance - Education allowance - Different conditions

(Staff Regulations of Officials, Annex VII, Arts 2 and 3)

Summary

1. In view of the fact that the education allowance is a monthly one, the question whether the conditions for granting it have been met is one to be considered month by month. It follows that entitlement to the education allowance ends once the child in respect of whom the allowance is paid ceases, even in the course of the academic year, to attend an educational establishment regularly and full time within the meaning of the first paragraph of Article 3 of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations.

In that context, training completed outside an educational establishment with the consent or support of the latter may be assimilated to regular full-time attendance at the establishment only if the training is regarded as an integral part of the programme of studies conducted by the establishment.

2. The criteria governing allocation of the dependent child allowance and allocation of the education allowance are not the same, so that entitlement to the first does not automatically give entitlement to the second.