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32004 R 0883: Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ L 166, 30.4.2004, p. 1), as corrected by OJ L 200, 7.6.2004, p. 1 and OJ L 204, 4.8.2007, p. 30, as amended by: — 32009 R 0988: Regulation (EC) No 988/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 (OJ L 284, 30.10.2009, p. 43). The provisions of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be adapted as follows: (a) the following subparagraph shall be added to Article 87(10): “With regard to Liechtenstein, the provisions of the second sentences of Article 65(2) and (3) shall be applicable at the latest as from 1 May 2012.”; (b) the following shall be added to Annex I(I): “ICELAND Advances of maintenance payments under the Act on Social Security No 100/2007. LIECHTENSTEIN Advances of maintenance payments under the Law on the grant of advances of maintenance payments of 21 June 1989 as amended. NORWAY Advance payment of child maintenance under the Advance payment of child maintenance Act of 17 February 1989 No 2.”; (c) the following shall be added to Annex I(II): “ICELAND Lump sum grants intended to offset the cost of international adoption pursuant to the Act on Adoption Grants No 152/2006. NORWAY Lump sum grants payable at childbirth pursuant to the National Insurance Act. Lump sum grants payable at adoption pursuant to the National Insurance Act.”; (d) the following shall be added to Annex II: “ICELAND — DENMARK Article 7 of the Nordic Convention on social security of 18 August 2003 (concerning coverage of extra travel expenses in case of sickness during stay in another Nordic country increasing the cost of return travel to the country of residence). ICELAND — FINLAND Article 7 of the Nordic Convention on social security of 18 August 2003 (concerning coverage of extra travel expenses in case of sickness during stay in another Nordic country increasing the cost of return travel to the country of residence). ICELAND — SWEDEN Article 7 of the Nordic Convention on social security of 18 August 2003 (concerning coverage of extra travel expenses in case of sickness during stay in another Nordic country increasing the cost of return travel to the country of residence). ICELAND — NORWAY Article 7 of the Nordic Convention on social security of 18 August 2003 (concerning coverage of extra travel expenses in case of sickness during stay in another Nordic country increasing the cost of return travel to the country of residence). NORWAY — DENMARK Article 7 of the Nordic Convention on social security of 18 August 2003 (concerning coverage of extra travel expenses in case of sickness during stay in another Nordic country increasing the cost of return travel to the country of residence). NORWAY — FINLAND Article 7 of the Nordic Convention on social security of 18 August 2003 (concerning coverage of extra travel expenses in case of sickness during stay in another Nordic country increasing the cost of return travel to the country of residence). NORWAY — SWEDEN Article 7 of the Nordic Convention on social security of 18 August 2003 (concerning coverage of extra travel expenses in case of sickness during stay in another Nordic country increasing the cost of return travel to the country of residence).”; (e) the following shall be added to Annex III: “ICELAND NORWAY”; (f) the following shall be added to Annex IV: “ICELAND LIECHTENSTEIN”; (g) The following shall be added to Annex VIII, Part 1 “ICELAND All applications from the old-age basic scheme and the defined benefit State employee scheme. LIECHTENSTEIN All applications for pensions of the old-age, survivors’ and invalidity insurances from the statutory pension scheme as well as for old-age, survivors’ and invalidity pensions from the occupational scheme as far as the regulations of the respective pension fund do not contain provisions concerning reduction. NORWAY All applications for old-age pension, except pensions mentioned in Annex IX.”; (h) the following shall be added to Annex VIII, Part 2: “ICELAND Old-age employment pension scheme. LIECHTENSTEIN Old-age, survivors’ and invalidity pensions from the occupational scheme.”; (i) the following shall be added to Annex IX(I): “ICELAND Child pension in accordance with the Act on Social Security No 100/2007 and child pension in accordance with the Act on Mandatory Pension Insurance and on the Activities of Pension Funds No 129/1997.”; (j) the following shall be added to Annex IX(II): “ICELAND Invalidity pension in the form of basic pension, pension supplement and age-related pension supplement according to the Act on Social Security No 100/2007. Invalidity pension according to the Act on Mandatory Pension Insurance and on the Activities of Pension Funds No 129/1997. NORWAY Norwegian disability pension, also when converted into an old-age pension upon the reaching of the pensionable age, and all pensions (survivors’ and old-age pensions) based on the deceased person’s pension earnings.”; (k) the following shall be added to Annex X: “LIECHTENSTEIN (a) Allowances for blind persons (Law on the granting of allowances for blind persons of 17 December 1970 as amended). (b) Maternity allowances (Law on the granting of maternity allowances of 25 November 1981 as amended). (c) Supplementary benefits to the old age, survivors’ and invalidity insurance (Law on supplementary benefits to the old age, survivors’ and invalidity insurance of 10 December 1965 as amended). NORWAY (a) Guaranteed minimum supplementary pension to persons who are born disabled or become disabled at an early age under the National Insurance Act. (b) Special benefits in accordance with the Act of 29 April 2005 No 21 on supplementary allowance to persons with short periods of residence in Norway.”; (l) the following shall be added to Annex XI: “ICELAND 1. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 6, persons who have not been gainfully employed in one or more EC Member States or EFTA States are entitled to an Icelandic social pension only if they have been, or have previously been, permanent residents of Iceland for at least 3 years, subject to the age limits prescribed by Icelandic legislation. (b) The above mentioned provisions do not apply to Icelandic social pension entitlement for the members of the family of persons who are or have been gainfully employed in Iceland, or for students or the members of their families. 2. Where employment or self-employment in Iceland has terminated and the contingency occurs during employment or self-employment in another State to which this Regulation applies and where the disability pension of both the social security and the supplementary pension schemes (pension funds) in Iceland no longer includes the period between the contingency and the pensionable age (future periods), periods of insurance under the legislation of another State to which this Regulation applies shall be taken into consideration for the requirement of the future periods as if they were periods of insurance in Iceland. LIECHTENSTEIN 1. Compulsory insurance under Liechtenstein sickness insurance scheme for benefits in kind (Krankenpflegeversicherung) and possible exemptions: (a) the Liechtenstein legal provisions governing compulsory sickness insurance for benefits in kind shall apply to the following persons not resident in Liechtenstein: (i) persons subject to Liechtenstein legal provisions under Title II of the Regulation; (ii) persons for whom Liechtenstein shall bear the costs of benefits according to Articles 24, 25 and 26 of the Regulation; (iii) persons receiving Liechtenstein unemployment benefits; (iv) family members of persons referred to in (i) and (iii) or of an employed or self-employed person resident in Liechtenstein who is insured under the Liechtenstein sickness insurance scheme; (v) family members of persons referred to in (ii) or of a pensioner resident in Liechtenstein who is insured under the Liechtenstein sickness insurance scheme. As family members are considered those persons who are defined as family members according to the legislation of the State of residence; (b) persons referred to in (a) may, on request, be exempted from compulsory insurance for benefits in kind if and as long as they are resident in Austria and can prove that they are eligible for cover in the event of sickness in a statutory or equivalent sickness insurance. The exemption cannot be revoked except in the case of a change of employer. This request (i) must be submitted within 3 months of the date of which the obligation to take out insurance in Liechtenstein comes into effect; where, in justified cases, the request is submitted after this deadline, the exemption shall take effect as from the commencement of the insurance obligation. Persons being already insured in Austria at the time of the entry into force of the Regulation in the EEA are considered to be exempted from the Liechtenstein compulsory insurance for benefits in kind; (ii) shall apply to all family members residing in the same State. 2. Persons who are working, but not residing in Liechtenstein and who have statutory or equivalent insurance cover in their State of residence in accordance with point 1(b), as well as their family members, shall benefit from the provisions of Article 19 of the Regulation during their stay in Liechtenstein. 3. For the purposes of applying Articles 18, 19, 20 and 27 of the Regulation in Liechtenstein, the competent insurer shall bear all invoiced costs. 4. Where a person subject to Liechtenstein legal provisions under Title II of the Regulation is, in application of 1(b), subject for the purposes of sickness insurance to the legal provisions of another State covered by this Agreement, the costs of these benefits in kind for non-occupational accidents shall be shared equally between the Liechtenstein insurer against the occupational and non-occupational accidents and industrial diseases and the competent sickness insurance institution if an entitlement exists to benefits in kind from both bodies. The Liechtenstein insurer against occupational and non-occupational accidents and industrial diseases shall meet all costs in the event of occupational accidents, accidents on the way to work or industrial diseases, even where there is an entitlement to benefits from a sickness insurance body in the country of residence. NORWAY 1. The transitional provisions of the Norwegian legislation entailing a reduction of the insurance period which is required for a full supplementary pension for persons born before 1937 shall be applicable to persons covered by the Regulation provided that they have been residents of Norway, or engaged in gainful occupation as employed or self-employed in Norway, for such a number of years as is required after their sixteenth birthday and before 1 January 1967. This requirement shall be 1 year for each year the person’s year of birth falls before 1937. 2. A person insured under the National Insurance Act who provides care to insured care-needing old, disabled or sick persons shall, according to prescribed conditions, be credited pension points for such periods. Likewise, and without prejudice to Article 44 of Regulation (EC) No 987/2009, a person who takes care of small children shall be credited pension points when staying in another State to which this Regulation applies, provided that the person concerned is on parental leave under Norwegian labour law. 3. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 6, persons who have not been gainfully employed in one or more EC Member States or EFTA States are entitled to a Norwegian social pension only if they have been, or have previously been, permanent residents of Norway for at least 3 years, subject to the age limits prescribed by Norwegian legislation. (b) The above mentioned provisions do not apply to Norwegian social pension entitlement for the members of the family of persons who are or have been gainfully employed in Norway, or for students or the members of their families.”. MODALITIES FOR THE PARTICIPATION OF EFTA STATES IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMISSION FOR THE COORDINATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEMS AND IN THE TECHNICAL COMMISSION FOR DATA PROCESSING AND IN THE AUDIT BOARD, BOTH ATTACHED TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMISSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 101 OF THE AGREEMENT: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway may each send a representative, present in an advisory capacity (observer), to the meetings of the Administrative Commission for the coordination of social security systems, attached to the European Commission, and to the meetings of the Technical Commission for data processing and of the Audit Board, both attached to the Administrative Commission.