#EAEA2608828AFrance Sets Overseas Service Periods for Annual Leave Travel Cost Coverage
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This order sets the minimum overseas service periods that allow French state civilian staff and certain public administrative employees posted abroad to have annual leave travel costs covered. The annex lists the required period for each country or location, with separate rules for staff under the 1967 decree and contract-based detached staff under the 2002 decree. The practical effect is administrative: HR teams and employees abroad must use the new country-by-country table to decide when annual leave travel expenses can be reimbursed. The previous 19 March 2025 order is replaced.
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Key Changes
- Sets a new country-by-country table of overseas service periods required for annual leave travel cost coverage
- Applies separate service-period rules for staff governed by the 1967 decree and contract-based detached staff governed by the 2002 decree
- Repeals and replaces the order of 19 March 2025 on the same subject
Obligations
What this law requires
Use the country/location-specific service-period table in the annex to determine whether civilian State personnel and eligible public administrative establishment personnel serving abroad are entitled to reimbursement of annual leave travel expenses.
For agents governed by the decree of 28 March 1967, grant annual leave travel cost coverage only after the minimum overseas service period listed in months for the relevant country or location in the annex has been met.
For contract-based detached agents governed by the decree of 4 January 2002, excluding resident contract-based detached agents, grant annual leave travel cost coverage only after the minimum number of complete school years listed for the relevant country or location in the annex has been met.
Do not apply the annual leave travel reimbursement eligibility rules from the repealed order of 19 March 2025; apply the new 4 May 2026 order instead.
For locations marked “Néant” in the annex, do not treat contract-based detached agents governed by the decree of 4 January 2002 as having a listed complete-school-year service period for annual leave travel cost coverage under this table.