On Friday 28 June, France’s social security institutions called on the next co-legislators to put the revision of the regulations coordinating social security systems (883/2004 and 987/2009) “on the agenda as a top priority” after the failure of the latest talks in February (see EUROPE 13350/27).
The REIF (Representation of French social security institutions to the EU) and its members “deplore this delay, given the urgent need to update the mobility rules in Europe and call l for this issue to be put back on the agenda as a top priority for the new European Commission, on the basis of the provisional agreement reached in 2021 under the Slovenian Presidency and the recent substantial progress made by the Swedish and Spanish Presidencies in 2023”.
“French social security institutions are facing new realities in terms of mobility, such as the increase in the export of pensions, the rapid development of teleworking and the emergence of nomadic workers. (...) For example, the current mechanism for reimbursing unemployment benefits for cross-border workers alone represents an additional cost of €8.9 billion for the French unemployment insurance scheme since 2011”, points out the REIF.
It also calls to “update rapidly the guidelines specific to the regime for multi-state workers and to reevaluate the interplay between the coordination regulations and the directive on cross-border healthcare”, to strengthen of the role of the European Labour Authority in the field of social security, and to anticipate the impact of enlargement on mobility.
At this stage, the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU has scheduled a briefing on 883/2004 for the December Employment and Social Affairs Council.
Link to position: https://aeur.eu/f/cvb (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)