The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs adopted the recommendation for second reading by Jean LAMBERT (Greens/EFA, UK), modifying the Council’s common position for adopting a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems.
The main amendments cover information to be communicated to the persons concerned by the regulation. MEPs believe that these persons should be better informed about their rights and obligations in line with the application of the regulation (including administrative procedures). Persons concerned may include, depending on the situation, the insured persons, their family members and/or their survivors or other persons. Other more technical amendments cover the time taken to respond to individual requests.
Lastly, MEPs call for a comparative report on the implementation of certain points of the implementing regulation.