Article 15
The following Article shall be inserted in Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations: 'Article 17a Subject to Article 1 (1) and Article 22, the widow of a former official who was removed from his post or whose service was terminated by virtue of Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68, (Euratom, ECSC, EEC) No 2530/72 or (ECSC, EEC, Euratom) No 1543/73 and who died whilst in receipt of a monthly allowance under Article 50 of the Staff Regulations or under one of the abovementioned Regulations shall be entitled, provided that she had been married to him for at least one year when he left the service of an institution, to a widow's pension equal to 60 % of the retirement pension to which her husband would have been entitled if he had qualified, irrespective of length of service or of age, for such pension at the time of death. The amount of the widow's pension provided for in the first paragraph shall not be less than the amount provided for in the second paragraph of Article 79 of the Staff Regulations. The amount of the widow's pension shall in no case, however, exceed the amount of the first payment of the retirement pension to which the former official would have been entitled assuming that, had he stayed alive and exhausted his rights to one or other of the abovementioned allowances, he would have been entitled to a retirement pension. The duration of the marriage specified in the first paragraph shall not be taken into account if there are one or more children of a marriage contracted by the official before he left the service, provided that the widow maintains or has maintained such dependent children within the meaning of Article 2 (2) of Annex VII. Nor shall the duration of the marriage be taken into account if the former official's death occurs in one of the circumstances described in the second paragraph of Article 17.'