CELEX: 51973PC0454
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-21
Title: SUPPLEMENT TO BE ADDED TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION amending Council Regulation (EEC) N° 574/72 of 21 March 1972 fixing the procedure for implementing Council Regulation (EEC) n° 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons and their families moving within the Community (submitted to the Council by the Commission, pursuant to the second paragraph, of article 149 of the EEC Treaty)

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                                          COM(73)454   final
                                          Brussels , 21 March 1973
              SUPPLEMENT TO BE ADDED TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A
                            COUNCIL REGULATION
    amending Council Regulation ( EEC ) N° 574/72 of 21 March 1972 fixing
    the procedure for implementing Council Regulation (EEC ) n° 1408/71
    of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to
     employed persons and their families moving within the Community
                 ( submitted to the Council by the Commission, pursuant
                   to the second paragraph, of article 149 of the EEC Treaty )
  COK(73 ) 454 final
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                           EXPLANATORY KESlORANDUh
Article 34 of Regulation (EEC ) No 574/72 covers persons who , during
their stay in another Member State , have "been unable to receive an
on the spot refund of expenses incurred due to illness or accident ,
because they were unable to complete the. formalities provided for in
that Regulation.   The purpose of Article 34 is to enable such persons
on return to receive a refund of such expenses from the medical
insurance institution to which they are affiliated , but at the rates
applied in their country of stay .  The refund can be delayed either
because the competent institution has to wait for information on the
rates of the institution of the place of stay or because the oompetent
institution has to await receipt of a corresponding amount from the
institution of the place of stay.   The proposal to add a paragraph 3
to Article 34 is intended to enable the competent institution to pay an
appropriate advance .                                  ...
 ---pagebreak---                      SUPPLEMENT TO EE ADDED TO THE PROPOSAL
                    FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION
      amending Council Regulation (EEC ) NO 574/ 72 of 21 March 1972
                                                              Ι
      fixing the procedure for implementing Council Regulation
       (EEC ) No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of social
      security schemes to employed persons and their families moving
      within the Community              \
The following paragraph 10a is inserted "between paragraphs 10 and 11 of
Article 1 :
"10(a) The following paragraph 3 is added to Article '34:
        " 3 . Where major expenses are involved , the competent institution
              may pay an appropriate advance to the person concerned as soon
              as that person submits to the said institution the claim for
              refund ."                                     "