in the contract to obtain its approval. The beneficiary country may not withhold its approval unless it submits duly substantiated and justified objections to the proposed experts in writing to the Contracting Authority within 15 days of the date of the request for approval. 

## ARTICLE 18. TRAINEES 

18.1. If required in the terms of reference, the Consultant shall provide training for the period of implementation of the tasks for trainees assigned to it by the Contracting Authority under the terms of the contract. 

18.2. Instruction by the Consultant of such trainees shall not confer on them the status of employees of the Consultant. However, they must comply with the Consultant's instructions, and with the provisions of ARTICLE 8, as if they were employees of the Consultant. The Consultant may on reasoned request in writing obtain the replacement of any trainee whose work or conduct is unsatisfactory. 

18.3. Unless otherwise provided in the contract, remuneration for trainees and travel, accommodation and all other expenses incurred by the trainees, shall be borne by the Contracting Authority. 

18.4. The Consultant shall report at quarterly intervals to the Contracting Authority on the training assignment. Immediately prior to the end of the period of implementation of the tasks, the Consultant shall draw up a report on the result of the training and an assessment of the qualifications obtained by the trainees with a view to their future employment. The form of such reports and the procedure for presenting them shall be as laid down in the terms of reference. 

## ARTICLE 19. DELAYS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TASKS 

## PERFORMANCE OF THECONTRACT 

19.1. If the Consultant does not perform the services within the period of implementation of the tasks specified in the contract, the Contracting Authority shall, without formal notice and without prejudice to its other remedies under the contract, be entitled to liquidated damages for every day, or part thereof, which shall elapse between the end of the period of implementation of the tasks specified in the contract and the actual end of the period of implementation of the tasks. 

19.2. The daily rate for liquidated damages is calculated by dividing the contract value by the number of days of the period of implementation of the tasks. 

19.3. If these liquidated damages exceed more than 15% of the contract value, the Contracting Authority may, after giving notice to the Consultant: 

## ARTICLE 20. AMENDMENT OF THE CONTRACT 

(a) terminate the contract; and 

(b) complete the services at the Consultant's own expense. 

20.1. Substantial modifications to the contract, including modifications to the total contract amount and replacement of expert whose Curriculum Vitae is part of the contract, must be made by means of an addendum. If the request for an amendment comes from the Consultant, the latter must submit such a request to the Contracting Authority at least 30 days before the amendment is intended to enter into force, except in cases which are duly substantiated by the Consultant and accepted by the Contracting Authority. Within 30 days the Contracting Authority shall, by written notice to the Consultant and where appropriate, grant such amendment, either prospectively or retrospectively, or inform the Consultant that it is not entitled to the request for amendment. Any activity carried out by the Consultant without an amendment of the contract is made at the Consultant's own financial risk. 

20.2. However, where the amendment does not affect the basic purpose of the contract and, for a fee- based contract, the financial impact is limited to a transfer within the Fees or between the fees and the provision for incidental expenditures and the provision for expenditure verification considering the fact that the latter provision cannot be decreased, involving a variation of less than 15% of the original amount (or as modified by addendum) for the total fees/provisions line where the money was taken from in the Budget breakdown in Annex V, the Project Manager shall have the power to order any variation to any part of the services necessary for the proper implementation of the tasks, without changing the object or scope of the contract. Such variations may include additions, omissions, substitutions, changes in quality, quantity, specified sequence, method or timing of implementation of 

