The Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU expects to obtain a new negotiating mandate on Regulation 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems at the meeting of ambassadors on Wednesday 24 February so that it can resume negotiations with the European Parliament.
According to the document obtained by EUROPE, with regard to prior notification before sending a worker (a stumbling block in the latest interinstitutional meetings - see EUROPE 12413/17), the Presidency believes that digital notification would be a “simple and efficient” way of informing the competent institution in the host country, but wants it to coincide with the entry into force of the provisions of the single digital gateway.
It suggests an exemption from the notification procedure for “business travel” with an horizontal time-based exception. Here, the Presidency will seek to define a minimum period for the temporal exemption with the national delegations as well as to clarify the concept of ‘business travel’.
With regard to pluriactivity, the Presidency proposes to remove the criterion based on ‘working time’. With regard to unemployment benefits for frontier workers, the Presidency wants to build on the existing mandate (an export of 6 months with uninterrupted affiliation), but proposes a longer export for frontier workers who have a longer period of affiliation to the social security system of the competent Member State.
According to our information, negotiations should resume on 1 March (see EUROPE 12659/30).
To see the document: http://bit.ly/3slG1gD (Original version in French by Pascal Hansens)