With a view to safeguarding a balance between EU staff members and public office holders, as regards emoluments, it is appropriate to include measures to align the treatment of public office holders with that of EU staff members in situations where the latter have benefited from a modernised structure of emoluments, such as with regard to automatic updates of allowances and to the possibility of joining the Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme, including after termination of a mandate.

for the abuse of office as a public office-holder in order to procure an unjustified advantage for him- or herself or for a third party, and thereby causing a loss to Ukrainian public funds or assets, or being an accomplice thereto’.

for abuse of office as a public office-holder in order to procure an unjustified advantage for him- or herself or for a third party and thereby causing a loss to Ukrainian public funds or assets, or being an accomplice thereto’.

It may also set out clearer rules on the criminal liability of appointed and elected office holders, and of legal persons regarding the protection of financial interests.

In the event of the death of a pensioner who was entitled to draw a pension or pensions under the legislation of one or more Member states, when such pensioner was residing in the territory of a Member States other than the one whose institution was responsible for providing him with benefits in kind under Article 28, the death grants payable under the legislation administrated by that instituion shall be provided by the institution at its own expense as though the pensioner had been residing in the territory of the Member States of that institution at the time of his death.

(b) where the pensioner is entitled to the said benefits under the legislations of two or more Member States, the cost thereof shall be borne by the competent institution of the Member State under whose legislation the pensioner has completed the longest period of insurance; should the application of this rule result in several institutions being responsible for the cost of benefits, cost shall be borne by the institution with which the pensioner was last insured.