depending on a risk assessment made.  33.3. In the event of a legally binding attachment of the property of the Consultant affecting payments due  to it under the contract and without prejudice to the time limit laid down in Article 29, the Contracting  Authority shall have 60 days, starting from the day when it receives notification of the definitive lifting  of the obstacle to payment, to resume payments to the Consultant.  33.2. Notification of beneficiaries of assignment shall be the sole responsibility of the Consultant.  33.1. All orders for payments to third parties may be carried out only after an assignment made in  accordance with Article 3.  31.5. Where necessary the European Union may as a donor subrogate itself to the Contracting Authority.  31.4. Bank charges arising from the repayment of amounts due to the Contracting Authority shall be borne  entirely by the Consultant.  31.3. Amounts to be repaid to the Contracting Authority may be offset against amounts of any kind due to  the Consultant. This shall not affect the right of the Consultant and the Contracting Authority to agree  on repayment by instalments.  (b) at the rediscount rate applied by the central bank of the beneficiary country if payments are in  the currency of that country,  (a) at the rate applied by the European Central Bank to its main refinancing transactions in euro,  as published in the Official Journal of the European Union, C series, where payments are in  euro,  31.2. Should the Consultant fail to make repayment within the above deadline; the Contracting Authority  may increase the amounts due by adding interest:  31.1. The Consultant shall repay any amounts paid in excess of the final amount due to the Contracting  Authority before the deadline indicated in the debit note which is 45 days from the issuing of that note.  30.6. For global price contracts, the financial guarantee must remain in force until the final payment has  been made.  30.5. For fee-based contracts, any existing financial guarantee shall be released when the pre- financing is  reimbursed in accordance with Article 29.1.  30.4. If the contract is terminated for any reason whatsoever, the financial guarantee may be invoked  forthwith in order to repay any balance still owed to the Contracting Authority by the Consultant, and  the guarantor shall not delay payment or raise objection for any reason whatever.  30.3. Should the financial guarantee cease to be valid and the Consultant fail to re-validate it, the  Contracting Authority may either make deductions from future payments due to the Consultant under  the Contract up to the total of the payments already made, or terminate the Contract if in the opinion  of the Contracting Authority such deduction is impracticable.  30.2. The financial guarantee shall be provided on the letterhead of the financial institution using the  template provided in Annex VI.  ARTICLE 31. RECOVERY OF DEBTS FROM THE CONSULTANT  on the first day of the month in which the deadline expired, plus seven percentage points. The late- payment interest shall apply to the time which elapses between the date of the payment deadline, and  the date on which the Consultant’s account is debited. Any partial payments shall cover the interest  thus established.  Unless otherwise stipulated in the special conditions, the global price of a global price contract and the fee  rates of a fee-based contract shall not be revised.  ARTICLE 32. REVISION OF PRICES  ARTICLE 33. PAYMENT TO THIRD PARTIES  Page 15 of 19 