When a conditional stage is confirmed late or is not confirmed, the contractor may benefit, if the contract so provides and under the conditions laid down therein, from a tide-over allowance or a non-execution allowance.

When a conditional stage is confirmed late or is not confirmed, the contractor may benefit, if the contract so provides and under the conditions laid down therein, from a tide-over allowance or a non-execution allowance.

When a conditional stage is confirmed belatedly or is not confirmed, the contractor may benefit, if the contract so provides and under the conditions laid down therein, from a tideover allowance or a non-execution allowance.

296. Notes that the differences in pay levels for civil servants working for Union institutions and for those working for national administrations, remain very high, leading, inter alia, to a lack of mobility between staff at a Union level and at national levels; calls on the Commission to carry out an in-depth study on the reasons for these differences and to develop a long-term strategy to reduce these differences, whilst paying particular attention to the different allowances (family, expatriation, installation and resettlement allowances), annual leave, holidays, travel days, and compensation for over-time;

Rural development programmes have to include agri-environmental measures which, together with other measures such as compensatory allowances in less favoured areas, aim at ensuring that farmers and other rural actors meet society's demand for environmental and rural services and thus contribute to safeguarding and enhancing agriculture's multifunctional role.

3. draws the Commission's attention to the fact that existing EU instruments, in particular the European Social Fund, cannot take over all social intervention measures hitherto financed by the ECSC, e.g. early retirement schemes, tideover allowances, wage make-up payments and resettlement allowances;