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The provisions for compensating travelling expenses for civil servants and State employees for official journeys are in the Collective Agreement concerning compensation for travelling expenses.
An official journey is a journey which is ordered by a superior and which a civil servant or an employee makes for carrying his or her official duties or tasks outside the workplace.
According to the Agreement travelling expenses that may be compensated are those extra expenses that the person concerned has paid because of the journey. The expenses shall be paid for actual transportation expenses, per diem, meal allowance, accommodation or hotel allowance or night travel allowance and training day allowance.
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