제15698호                               관                보                 2004. 5. 20. (목요일)

   the National Pension Corporation, Seoul;               an application for a pension is being
 b. in the Federal Republic of Germany:                   processed.
   for the Wage Earners’Pension Insurance,          3. The jurisdiction of the Railways’Insurance
   the    Regional    Insurance     Institution         Institution and of the Seamen’s Fund under
   (Landesversicherungsanstalt) for                     German legislation shall remain unaffected.
   Braunschweig, Braunschweig, for the              4. The liaison agencies and the German
   Salaried Employees’Pension Insurance,                agencies referredto in paragraph (3) shall be
   the Federal Insurance Institution for                authorized to agree, within their respective
   Salaried Employees(Bundesversicherungsanstalt        areas of jurisdiction and with the participation
         Angestellte), Berlin, for the Miners’          of the competent authorities, upon the
   Pension Insurance, the Federal Miners’               administrative measures necessary and
   Insurance Institution(Bundesknappschaft),            appropriate for the implementation of the
   Bochum, for the Steelworkers’Supplementary           Agreement, including the procedure for the
   Insurance, the RegionalInsurance Institution         reimbursement and payment of cash benefits.
   (Landesversicherungsanstalt) for the                 Paragraph (1)of Article 19 of the Agreement
   Saarland, Saarbr ken, to the extent that the         shall remain unaffected.
   German statutory sickness insurance              5. Paragraph (4) shall apply analogously to the
   agencies are involved in implementing the            institutions designated by the competent
   Agreement, the German Liaison Agency                 authorities in the second sentence of
   Health Insurance-International (Deutsche             paragraph (1) of Article 7 and in the first
   Verbindungsstelle Krankenversicherung-               sentence of Article 10 of the Agreement.
   Ausland), Bonn.                                      Article 3 Obligation to provide information
2. In applying Germanlegislation, the liaison       The liaison agencies and the German agencies
 agency designated for the Wage Earners’ under paragraph (3) of Article 2 as well as the
 Pension       Insurance    system      shallbe     institutions specified in paragraph (5) of Article
 responsible, within the scope of that system,      2 shall, within their respective areas of
 for all procedures including the determination     jurisdiction, be responsible for providing
 and granting of benefits if:                       general information to the persons concerned
 a. periods of coverage have been completed         about their rights and obligations under the
   or are to be credited under both German          Agreement.
   and Korean legislation; or                           Article 4 Obligation to communicate facts
 b. the person entitled to a benefit ordinarily     1. The institutions referred to in paragraphs
   resides in the territory of the Republic of          (1), (3) and (5) of Article 2 of this Arrangement
   Korea; or                                            and in Article 14 of the Agreement shall,
 c. the person entitled to a benefit is a Korean        within their respective areas of jurisdiction,
   national and ordinarily resides outside the          provide each other and the persons concerned
   territories of both Contracting States.              the facts and evidence necessary to secure
   This provision shall apply to rehabilitation         the rights and obligations arising from the
   benefits only if they are to be granted while        legislation specified in paragraph (1) of

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