On 26 March, the Représentation européenne des institutions françaises de sécurité sociale (Reif) and the Deutsche Sozialversicherung Europavertretung (DSV) submitted a joint statement to the EU’s co-legislators - the EU Council and European Parliament - calling for a rapid conclusion to the revision of the regulations coordinating social security systems, according to a press release published on Wednesday 8 April.
The two bodies call on the negotiators from the two institutions “to make full use of the available margin of compromise in order to finally conclude [the negotiations] after more than nine years”.
“This clear modernised legal framework is necessary to introduce new initiatives, such as the Fair Mobility Package, including the European Social Security Pass (ESSPASS), which will simplify [...] mobility within the internal market”.
Exercise caution with e-declaration. The signatories also emphasise that the “procedure under the applicable social security law for cross-border employment (‘A1 certificate’) must not be merged with the labour law notification procedure for cross-border employment (‘posting declaration’)” nor with the e-declaration, on which work is resuming in the EU Council after the European Council demanded in March that European Parliament and the EU Council reach an agreement by June.
These are “two entirely distinct procedures”, say the two organisations. A trilogue with Parliament is still scheduled for 22 April by the Cyprus Presidency of the EU Council.
Link to statement: https://aeur.eu/f/lgm (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)