COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... on reviewing the scale for missions by officials and other servants of the European Union in the Member States

EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 26.2.2025 C(2025) 1150 final COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... of 26.2.2025 on reviewing the scale for missions by officials and other servants of the European Union in the Member States EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 1. CONTEXT OF THE DELEGATED ACT The Staff Regulations require the Commission to review every two years, by means of a delegated act, the rates of mission expenses (the daily subsistence allowance and the hotel ceilings)1. As the purpose of this review is to reflect the changes in the prices of hotels, restaurants and catering services in each Member State thereby allowing an adequate coverage of mission expenses, it shall be made in the light of a report on the evolution of the indexes of these prices. The Delegated Regulation constitutes the second review of the rates of mission expenses by the Commission after it has been empowered to adopt delegated acts on that matter2 and adopted such Delegated Regulation in 20163. 2. CONSULTATIONS PRIOR TO THE ADOPTION OF THE ACT Eurostat has submitted a report on the update of mission expenses (daily subsistence allowances and hotel ceilings)4. The underlying methodology used in the report was approved by the Working Group on Articles 64 and 65 of the Staff Regulations in March 2019. In the process of the preparation of the draft Delegated Regulation, a simultaneous, timely and appropriate transmission of relevant documents to the European Parliament and the...