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26 November 2013

欧州議会と欧州連合理事会、EU域内を移動する労働者の私的年金の受給権を保護する指令に合意


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EP and Member State negotiators reached agreement on rules to allow EU workers who move to a different EU country to safeguard their supplementary pension rights. Negotiations had been deadlocked in Council for six years.


"European workers can now enjoy full pension rights when they move to another Member State. The legislation will help to eliminate barriers to the free movement of workers", said rapporteur Ria Oomen-Ruijten (EPP, NL)

Statutory pension rights, i.e. those provided by the state, for people working in another Member State, are already secured under EU law. However, equivalent protection for supplementary pension schemes, i.e. occupational pensions financed or co-financed by employers, has not been established until now and individuals who move between member states have run the risk of losing entitlements built up over a period not deemed long enough.

Shorter period of affiliation

Under the new rules, the "vesting period", i.e. the period of active membership of a scheme needed for a person to keep supplementary pension entitlements, must not exceed three years.

Scope of the legislation

The legislation applies to EU workers who move within the EU, but also, at Parliament’s insistence, to cross-border workers.

Transposition

The deal sets a four-year deadline for transposing the directive into national law.

Next steps

The informal deal still has to be endorsed by Member States’ permanent representatives (COREPER) and the Employment Committee as a whole before going to plenary.

Press release

EuroParlTV video

It is unclear whether the European Parliament will vote on the Directive before the parliamentary elections in 2014. However, once passed, Member States will have four years to apply the changes to national law. This is not the Commission’s first attempt to pass the Portability Directive, first published eight years ago but abandoned following resistance from a number of Member States.

Further reporting © IPE



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