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Madam President, simplifying and updating this regulation is of major importance in promoting the mobility of workers in the European Union.
I would remind the European Parliament that, eighteen months ago, a specific action plan promoting mobility was agreed and a number of these important promotional measures concerned the need for coordination and cooperation between social security systems, but not just that.
The question of mobility is directly linked to competitiveness, to job creation and to social cohesion and it essentially forms the precondition to a real European job market.
During the previous years’ application of this regulation, its provisions have proven to be exceptionally complicated, long-winded and unwieldy. Thus, the system no longer responds to new developments in the Member States’ social security systems or to the new mobility conditions in the European Union. In other words, this regulation urgently needs to be simplified and updated and this is precisely the aim of the Commission proposal. Simplification will result in Community legislation which is more comprehensible to the citizens for whose sake it is created.
As regards updating, I should like to highlight three basic amendments. The first concerns the personal aspect of the regulation. The proposed regulation will apply not only to workers who move but also to all citizens of the European Union covered by the social security legislation of a Member State. Freedom of movement cannot only benefit workers; it must benefit all European citizens.
The proposed regulation, and this is the second amendment, aims to broaden the material aspect of the application of coordination rules. Thus, the social insurance sectors include new forms of benefits, such as early retirement benefits.
The third important amendment proposed by the Commission concerns unemployment benefits for cross-frontier workers. The Commission proposes that cross-frontier workers should receive benefits from the state in which they last worked. This is important in order to put an end to the complicated and unsatisfactory distinction between full and part-time employment of both typical and atypical cross-frontier workers. Every year the Commission receives thousands of protests from workers who work in one country and live in another and who are frequently subject to discrimination due to the inefficient coordination of social security systems.
Thus, we believe that this proposal will help not only to update the system, which is necessary, but also to simplify it, so that it functions more smoothly both for the citizens and the Member States."@en1
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