The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs adopted the recommendation for second reading by Jan CREMERS (PES, NL), modifying the Council’s common position for adopting a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems, and determining the content of its annexes.
All the amendments cover the issue of Annex III of the regulation, which contains a list of Member States which apply the “restriction of rights to benefits in kind for members of the family of frontier workers” in the competent Member State . Given that the Council is unwilling to repeal the Annex III, as called for by the Parliament, but instead proposes a review of this Annex no later than 5 years from the date of entry into force of the regulation, MEPs feel that is should be made clear that, in principle, the aim of this revision is to have the Annex III repealed (unless there are compelling reasons to do otherwise).