Article 110
1. If a member of the contract staff is appointed an official or temporary servant of the Communities, he shall not receive the grant provided for in Article 109(1). Any period of service on the contract staff of one the Communities shall be taken into account for the purpose of calculating years of pensionable service as provided for in Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations. 2. Where the institution has exercised the option provided for in Article 112, the contract staff member's retirement pension rights shall be reduced proportionately in respect of the period in which the sums were withdrawn. 3. The preceding paragraph shall not apply to a contract staff member who, in the three months following application of the Staff Regulations to him, asks to be allowed to repay such sums plus compound interest at the rate of 3,5 % per year, which may be revised following the procedure laid down in Article 12 of Annex XII to the Staff Regulations. Section D Funding of the invalidity and life assurance scheme and of the pension scheme