SOCIAL SECURITY : GRANTING OF BENEFITS FOR WORKERS FROM ASSOCIATED COUNTRIES.

The European Commission adopted a set of provisions setting the application arrangements for social security provisions for natives of several countries with which the European Union has signed association agreements (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, Croatia and Israel).

These association agreements contain similar provisions on the coordination of social security systems, "which will facilitate their application through the member states' social security institutions", the Commission explained. The intended goal is to ensure that workers from the associated countries can receive certain social security benefits provided in accordance with the legislation of the member state or states' that they are subject to or were subject to in the past. In accordance with the principle of reciprocity, the same rule will apply for an EU native working in the associated country.

Certain countries...