Civil & Administrative

#2006-781Decree on Reimbursement of Travel Expenses for Civil Servants

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This decree sets out the conditions for reimbursing travel expenses for civil servants in France. It impacts government employees who travel for work, providing guidelines on eligible expenses and reimbursement procedures. It helps ensure these employees are compensated for mission-related costs and travel, including meals and accommodation, while also outlining specific rules for travel within administrative zones, overseas, and for training purposes.

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Key Changes

  • Establishes reimbursement rules for travel expenses of civil servants
  • Clarifies eligible expenses such as transport, meals, and accommodation
  • Defines procedures for claiming reimbursements and issuing advance payments

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Issue a mission order (ordre de mission) to civil servants before they travel for work purposes, with maximum duration not exceeding twelve months

State services and public establishments employing civil servants
operational
high

Reimburse transport expenses for agents on mission, tour, interim, or training upon production of payment justifications to the ordonnateur

State services and public establishments employing civil servants
operational
high

Provide mission indemnities covering meal expenses (forfaitaire) and accommodation expenses (with justifications for foreign/overseas), or reduced indemnities if agent is provided free lodging or meals

State services and public establishments employing civil servants
operational
medium

Do not cumulate in-kind benefits from contracted transport/hospitality providers with mission indemnities or other indemnities having the same purpose

State services and public establishments
prohibition
medium

Reduce mission indemnities by a percentage fixed by ministerial order when agents traveling overseas or to overseas territories have access to free administrative canteens or subsidized administrative housing

State services and public establishments
operational

Affected Parties

Civil servantsPublic institutions

Tags

travel expenses,public administration,reimbursement policy