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"Mr President, we have an opportunity to debate the proposed amendment to the regulation on the coordination of social security systems in individual Member States. I would first like to thank all of the rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs and others who collaborated on a change to the regulation which we can now approve – and with a large majority, I hope.
The basic aim of the regulation is to ensure that workers migrating within the EU, in other words, citizens of any Member State, as well as stateless persons or refugees, and including both employees and the self-employed, are covered by a social security system in all circumstances, with all of the rights and obligations arising from this, and are also not obliged to pay contributions in two or more countries at the same time. The need to modernise this regulation is connected with changes both to national legislation and to the case-law of the European Court of Justice. It is a need for simplification, easier interpretation and a limitation on the scope for conflicts of opinion. In principle, there are three main areas, which include defining and clarifying the concept of a ‘substantial portion of activities’, and specifying the criteria for possible situations where a person has residence in a state other than the one in which they perform a substantial portion of their activities.
The other important topic is the introduction of the concept of a ‘home base’ to address the problem of air crew members, adopting the solution that the home base will be deemed to be the airport from which they most frequently fly and where they most frequently land, which will determine the legislation or the given national legislation that will apply to air crew in a given case.
The final important area is unemployment benefits for self-employed frontier workers, where these people are not insured against unemployment. Some Member States have insurance systems for self-employed people who are out of work, whilst others do not. This issue is also taken into account and resolved in the submitted draft. Under the regulation, a self-employed person would be insured against unemployment in the Member State where they last worked, even if they return to the Member State where they previously resided. The uncertainty over cover for air crew was resolved through the concept of the home base, which is the place where the air crew member usually performs his work.
The regulation we are discussing today – and which we will approve, I hope – is a practical instrument for the smooth functioning of the common market, as it introduces greater protection and certainty for a greater number of mobile workers. Self-employed people can also now work throughout the common market with the knowledge that social security will also apply to them if they lose their livelihood.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I am looking forward to the debate, and I would like to thank you for your support."@en1
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