Social security: employed persons, self-employed persons and members of their families moving within the Community

PURPOSE: to update provisions relating to national social security legislation.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EC) No 592/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community

CONTENT: this Regulation amends rules for the application of social security schemes to workers and members of their families moving within the EU. The Regulation updates regulation 1408/71 in order to take account of recent changes in the national legislations of Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands and Poland. Accordingly, Annexes I, II, IIa, III, IV, VI and VIII to Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 07/07/2008.