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". – Regulation 1408/71 and Regulation 574/72 protect the social security rights of workers by coordinating the different national social security systems of Member States. There are two main rights that workers have through these regulations. Firstly they have the right to unemployment benefit; secondly, to look for employment in another Member State and to continue to receive unemployment benefit for a maximum period of three months.
However, this regulation applies to workers who are Community nationals. In 1997 the Commission presented a proposal to the Council to extend the scope of this regulation to workers who are third-country nationals. The same extension had been included in the larger frame of the Commission proposal of 1998 to modernise and simplify Regulation 1408/71.
There were many discussions over many years. There was a very complicated discussion in the Council of Ministers. There were many disagreements between the Member States. The main obstacles to progress in this regard had been the lack of agreement on the legal base. It is not a legalistic or technical problem, it is a political one. But the difference in the legal base concerned first the Commission's proposal, which was based on the implementation of Articles 42 and 308, and certain Member States which considered that the basis of this proposal could be Article 63. The political difference is that under the last article there are some Member States that have the right to opt out of the regulation.
Under the Belgian Presidency the Council of 3 December 2001 unanimously agreed that the basis which must be used is Article 63. So the Commission will very shortly present a new proposal to extend Regulation 1408/71 to third-country nationals using this new basis of Article 63.
As far as the substance is concerned, I must highlight the Commission's agreement with your concept."@en1
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