ARTICLE 23. INFORMATION  ARTICLE 24. RECORDS  The Consultant shall furnish the Project Manager or any person authorised by the Contracting Authority, the  European Commission or the European Court of Auditors with any information relating to the services and the  project as the Project Manager may at any time request.  24.1. The Consultant shall keep full accurate and systematic records and accounts in respect of the services  in such form and detail as is sufficient to establish accurately that the number of working days and the  actual incidental expenditure identified in the Consultant's invoice(s) have been duly incurred for the  performance of the services.  24.2. For a fee-based contract, timesheets recording the days or hours worked by the Consultant's  personnel must be maintained by the Consultant. The timesheets must be approved by the Project  Manager or any person authorised by the Contracting Authority or the Contracting authority itself on a  monthly basis. The amounts invoiced by the Consultant must correspond to these timesheets. Time  spent travelling exclusively and necessarily for the purpose of the Contract, by the most direct route,  may be included in the numbers of days or hours, as appropriate, recorded in these timesheets. Travel  undertaken by the expert for mobilisation and demobilisation as well as for leave purposes shall not  be considered as working days. A minimum of 7 hours worked are deemed to be equivalent to one  day worked. For all experts, their time input must be rounded to the nearest whole number of days  worked for the purposes of invoicing.  24.3. Such records must be kept for a 7-year period after the final payment made under the contract. These  documents comprise any documentation concerning income and expenditure and any inventory,  necessary for the checking of supporting documents, including timesheets, plane and transport tickets,  pay slips for the remuneration paid to the experts and invoices or receipts for incidental expenditure.  Failure to maintain such records constitutes a breach of contract and may result in the termination of  the contract.  24.4. The Consultant shall permit the Project Manager or any person authorised by the Contracting Authority  or the Contracting Authority itself to inspect or audit, , the records and accounts relating to the services  and to make copies thereof both during and after provision of the services.  25.1. The Consultant will allow the European Commission, the European Anti-Fraud Office and the  European Court of Auditors to verify, by examining the documents and to make copies thereof or by  means of on-the-spot checks of original documents, the implementation of the contract and conduct  a full audit, if necessary, on the basis of supporting documents for the accounts, accounting documents  and any other document relevant to the financing of the project. In order to carry out these verifications  and audits, the Consultant shall ensure that on-the-spot accesses is available at all reasonable times,  notably at the Consultant's offices, to its computer data, to its accounting data and to all the information  needed to carry out the audits, including information on individual salaries of persons involved in the  project. The Consultant shall ensure that the information is readily available at the moment of the audit  and, if so requested, that data be handed over in an appropriate form. These inspections may take  place up to 7 years after the final payment.  25.2. To this end, the Consultant undertakes to give appropriate access to staff or agents of the European  Commission, of the European Anti-Fraud Office and of the European Court of Auditors to the sites and  locations at which the Contract is carried out, including its information systems, as well as all  documents and databases concerning the technical and financial management of the project and to  take all steps to facilitate their work. Access given to agents of the European Commission, European  Anti-Fraud Office and the European Court of Auditors shall be on the basis of confidentiality with  respect to third parties, without prejudice to the obligations of public law to which they are subject.  Documents must be easily accessible and filed so as to facilitate their examination. The Consultant  must inform the Contracting Authority of their precise location.  25.3. The Contractor guarantees that the rights of the European Commission, of the European Anti- Fraud  Office and of the European Court of Auditors to carry out audits, checks and verification will be equally  applicable, under the same conditions and according to the same rules as those set out in this Article,  Page 11 of 19  Furthermore, the Beneficiary will allow the European Anti-Fraud Office to carry out checks and  verification on the spot in accordance with the procedures set out in the European Union legislation  for the protection of the financial interests of the European Union against fraud and other irregularities.  ARTICLE 25. VERIFICATION BY EU BODIES 