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Activities of Sofia RIBEIRO related to 2016/0397(COD)

Plenary speeches (1)

Coordination of social security systems (debate) PT
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/0397(COD)

Amendments (17)

Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) In order to ensure clarity regarding the terminology in EU law, the term “posting” should only be used for the posting of workers within the meaning of Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services.34 In addition, to achieve consistency in treatment between employed and self-employed persons it is necessary that the special rules for the determination of applicable legislation in the cases of workers who are temporarily posted or sent to another Member State should apply consistently to both employed and self-employed persons. __________________ 34 OJ L 018, 21.01.1997 p. 1.deleted
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) As regards family benefits for family members living in a Member State other than the competent Member State, their costs and standards of living are likely to differ compared to those of family members residing in the competent Member State. Family benefits are intended to meet family expenses and therefore predominantly serve the purpose of partially meeting the actual costs for living.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 160 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 5 – addition
2. In Recital 5, after “the different national legislation for the persons concerned” the following wording is inserted: , subject to the conditions as regards the access to certain social security benefits by economically inactive mobile EU citizens in the host Member State set out in Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States.40 __________________ 40 OJ L 158, 30.4.2004, p. 77deleted
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 5
(2a) Recital 5 is replaced by the following: (5) It is necessary, within the framework of such coordination, to guarantee within the CommunityUnion equality of treatment under theacross different national legislationaw for the persons concerned.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 5 f (new)
(5f) It is necessary to ensure that Union citizens are not treated less favourably than other persons who fall within the scope of this Regulation. The limitations to equal treatment introduced in this Regulation should therefore, without prejudice to rights of equal treatment provided for in other Union law, apply mutatis mutandis to those other persons.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 24
(24) LIn line with the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, long-term care benefits for insured persons and members of their families need to be coordinated according to specific rules which, in principle,should, in principle, continue to be coordinated following the rules applicable to sickness benefits, in line with the case law of the Co. However, those rules should take into account the specific naturte of Justicelong- term care benefits. It is also necessary to provide for specific provisions in case of overlapping of long-term care benefits in kind and in cash.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 46
(46) In order to enable a timely update of this Regulation to the developments at the national level, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the European Commission in respect of amending the Annexes to this Regulation and to Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 and to supplement this Regulation by establishing a concrete, consistent and functional adjustment mechanism for the allocation of family benefits in relation to children residing in a Member State other than the competent Member State. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of 13 April 2016.43 In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States’ experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. __________________ 43 COM(2015) 216 final. COM(2015) 216 final.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 194 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 47
(47) This Regulation respects the fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised inby the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, notably the protection of personal data (Article 8), the freedom to choose an occupation and right to engage in work (Article 15), the right to property (Article 17), the right to non-discrimination (Article 21), the rights of the child (Article 24), the rights of the elderly (Article 25), integration of persons with disabilities (Article 26), the right to family and professional life (Article 33); the right to social security and social assistance (Article 34), the right to health care (Article 35) and the right to freedom of movement and residence (Article 45); and has to be implemented in accordance with those rights and principle and the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Unless otherwise provided for by this Regulation, persons to whom this Regulation applies shall enjoy the same benefits and be subject to the same obligations under the legislation of any Member State as the nationals thereof.deleted
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 245 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point c
(aa) In paragraph 3, point (c) is replaced by the following: “(c) a person receiving unemployment benefits in accordance with Article 65 under the legislation of the Member State of residence or of the State of his or her most recent activity as an employed or self-employed person shall be subject to the legislation of that Member State;
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. A person who pursues an activity as an employed person in a Member State on behalf of an employer which normally carries out its activities there and who is posted within the meaning of Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services46 or sent by that employer to another Member State to perform work on that employer’s behalf shall continue to be subject to the legislation of the first Member State, provided that the anticipated duration of such work does not exceed 24 months and that the person is not posted or sent to replace another employed or self-employed person previously posted or sent within the meaning of this Article. __________________ 46 OJ L 018, 21.01.1997 p. 1.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 286 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 12 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. After the end of a posting as referred to in paragraph 1, the employed person concerned shall not be posted by the same undertaking to the same Member State until two months after the end of the previous posting. In exceptional circumstances, an undertaking may apply to the competent authority for a derogation from the first subparagraph.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 321 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 m (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 30
14m. Article 30 is replaced by the following: “Article 30 Contributions by pensioners 1. The institution of a Member State which is responsible under the legislation it applies for making deductions in respect of contributions for sickness, maternity and equivalent paternity and long-term care benefits, may request and recover such deductions, calculated in accordance with the legislation it applies, only to the extent that the cost of the benefits pursuant to Articles 23 to 26 is to be borne by an institution of the said Member State. 2. Where, in the cases referred to in Article 25, the acquisition of sickness, maternity and equivalent paternity and long-term care benefits is subject to the payment of contributions or similar payments under the legislation of a Member State in which the pensioner concerned resides, these contributions shall not be payable by virtue of such residence. ” Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004R0883R(01)&from=EN)
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 512 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 1 – point 2 – point e a
(ea) ‘fraud’ means any intentional act or omission to act, in order to obtain or receive social security benefits or to avoid to pay social security contributions, contrary to the provisions of the basic Regulation and the implementing Regulation or the law of a Member State;.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 582 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 16 – paragraph 3
3. If that institution determines that the legislation of another Member State applies, it shall do so provisionally and shall without delay inform the institution of the Member State which it considers to be competent of this provisional decision. The decision shall become definitive within two months after the institution designated by the competent authorities of the Member State concerned has been informed of it, unless the latter institution informs the first institution and the persons and the employers concerned that it cannot yet accept the provisional determination or that it takes a different view on this.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 586 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 16 – paragraph 5
5. The competent institution of the Member State whose legislation is determined to be applicable either provisionally or definitively shall without delay inform the person concerned and/or his or her employer.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 648 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 65 – paragraph 1
1. The annual average cost per person in each age group for a specific year shall be notified to the Audit Board at the latest by the end of the second year following the year in question, with sickness and long- term care benefits in kind indicated separately.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL