i. Europol will arrange and pay for the hotel accommodation for the Contractor’s Personnel . Subject to a contractual need to provide services which are only separated by a weekend or one or more public holidays recognised as such by Europol, Contractor’s Personnel  and Europol may agree that Europol arranges and pays for hotel accommodation also for such periods if the costs thereof do not exceed the travel costs which could otherwise have been necessary; and 

ii. Europol will provide the Contractor’s Personnel  with a fixed subsistence allowance of EUR 50 (fifty EURO) per person for every 8 (eight) hours of completed work. Any additional billable hours below 4 (four) hours shall be compensated at a rate of EUR 25 (twenty five EURO) per person. Any additional billable hours between 4 (four) and 8 (eight) hours shall be compensated at a rate of EUR 35 (thirty five EURO) per person. 

7. All related original supporting documents (including boarding passes where the date, time and destination is indicated), as well as the original receipts of payment shall be provided to Europol as evidence for reimbursements. 

8. Travel time is not considered working time. Except as specified in this Article, the Contractor  is not entitled to other reimbursements and/or may not charge to Europol any other costs with respect of travel, accommodation and subsistence. 

9. Applicable reimbursement of travel, accommodation and expenses shall be paid by Europol to the Contractor  under this Article. The Contractor  is solely responsible for payment of the amounts owed to its Personnel  as part of their Due Remuneration . No direct payment from Europol to Contractor’s  will be made under this Framework Contract . 

10. Each Specific Contract or Purchase Order shall identify whether any costs under this Article are payable by Europol and shall indicate the maximum financial burden for Europol in this regard to ensure that appropriate budgetary arrangements can be made in advance. In the absence of such specific reference, no costs under this Article are payable by Europol. 

## Reduction in payment and off-setting 

## Article II-11 

1. If the Contractor fails to deliver the goods and/or provide the services in full or in part or in accordance with the quality requirements stipulated in the Framework Contract  and/or as provided in a Specific Contract  or Purchase Order , Europol may reduce the amount(s) due, in proportion to the seriousness of the non-performed obligations or to the lower quality Deliverables . This includes the specific case where Europol cannot approve or finally accept a result, report or  Deliverable , even after the Contractor submitted the required additional information, correction or new version of result, report or Deliverable . 

2. Instead of reducing the amount(s) due, Europol may terminate the Specific Contract, Purchase Order and /or the Framework Contract in accordance with Article II- 22 (3, ii) (“Termination”). Europol may also choose to off-set any payments already made in the implementation of the Framework Contract  against Contractor’s  future invoices (if Europol elects to do this it is entitled to raise a recovery order as a means of effecting off-setting). 

3. Reduction in the price due or off-setting may be used together with liquidated damages imposed on the Contractor  under Article II-23 (“Liquidated damages”). 

4. If Europol wishes to reduce or off-set the price to be paid, it must send a Formal notification  to the Contractor  and allow it a reasonable period of time to discharge of its obligations or to implement 

