CELEX: 51973PC0209
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Date: 1973-02-14
Title: AUDITION TO BE MADE TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 of 21 March 1972 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 (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                  COM(73)209 final
                                                  Brussels , 14 February 1973
          AUDITION TO BE MADE TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION
          amending Council Regulation (EEC ) No 574/72 of 21 March 1972
          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
                   ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
  C0M(73 ) 209 final
 ---pagebreak---                               EXPLANATORY IET50RAJKDUII
         Article 118 ( L ) of Council Regulation ( EEC) NO 574/72 of 21 March 1972 ( l )
 provides that claims for pensions relating to a risk which materialized before
 1 October 1972 (the date of entry into force of the abovementioned Regulation
 and of Council Regulation No 1403/71 of 14 June 1971 ) ( 2 ) which have not yet
 been awarded on that date, should give rise to a double award:
           i ) for the period preceding 1 October 1972 , in accordance with the pro­
visions of Regulation No 3 which are solely applicable before that date ;
         ii ) for the period following 1 October 1972 , in accordance with the pro­
visions of Regulation No 140&/71 , which excluded the retention of the amount of
the pension awarded in accordance with the provisions of Regulation No 3, even
 if that amount exceeded the amount arising from the award established in accord­
ance with the provisions of Regulation No 1408/71 . The application of this
provision could therefore have effects contrary to the principle of retention
of rights acquired , and would at anv rate be unjustified because , tinder Article
94 (5 ) of basic Regulation No 1408/71 , the persons concerned to whom a pension
was awarded prior to 1 October 1972 under the provisions of Regulation No 3 may
opt either for the retention of that pension or for a review of that pension
under the provisions of the new Regulation.
         Besides , this provision should be amended in order to take account of
the fact that , up to 1 April 1973 f the award of rights to a pension acquired
by virtue of the legislations of two of the new Member States or of one of the
New Member States and one of the original Member States is governed by the
bilateral conventions concluded between the States and not by the provisions
of Regulation No 3 .
         It is therefore proposed that Article 118 ( l ) of Regulation No 574/72
be amended in such a manner as to ensure that the persons concerned whose rights
are derived from a contingency which occurred before 1 October 1972 (if only
two or several original Member States are involved) or before 1 April 1973 ( if
two of the new Member States or one of the new Member States and an original
Member State are involved) and whose claim for a pension was not awarded before
either one of these dates , as appropriate, may benefit , for the period following,
from the most favourable solution, i.e » either from the pension arising from
the application of the provisions of Regulation No 3 or from bilateral conven­
tions or from the pension fixed under the provisions of Regulation No 1408/71 .
( 1 ) O.J. No L 74 of 27 March 1972
( 2 ) O.J. No L 149 of 5 July 1971
 ---pagebreak---        ADDITION TO BE MADE TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION
amending Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 574/72 of 21 March 1972 fixing -the pro­
cedure for implementing Council Regulation ( SEC) No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971
on the application of social security schemes to employed persons and their
families moving within the Community .
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      A paragraph 24A shall "be inserted, in Article 1 between paragraphs 24
and 25 , reading as follows :
"24A. Article 113 ( l ) shall "be replaced "by the following text :
                                  " Article 118
      Transitional provisions relating to pensions .
      If the date on which the risk materialized precedes the date from which
      the Regulation applies and if the claim for a pension has not yet been
      awarded before that date , that claim shall give rise to a double awards
      a) in accordance with the provisions of Regulation No 3 or of conven­
          tions which were in force , until the date when the Regulation became
          applicable , between the Member States concerned, on the one handf
      b ) in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations , on the other
          hand .
      However, if the amount calculated under the provisions referred to in a )
      above is higher than the amount calculated under the provisions referred
      to in b ) above, the person concerned shall continue to receive the amount
      calculated under the provisions referred to in a ) above .""