The Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (European Interim Agreement) Order 1959

Annex I To the European Interim Agreement on Social Security other than Schemes for Old Age, Invalidity and Survivors

Social Security Schemes to which the Agreement applies

Belgium:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

Social security for employees, respecting the organisation of compulsory insurance against sickness or invalidity.

(b)

Compensation for injuries resulting from industrial accidents, including provision for benefit increments for employment injuries and compensation for employment injuries of mariners.

(c)

Compensation for injuries caused by occupational diseases, including provision for the granting of additional allowances to persons entitled to occupational disease pensions.

(d)

Social security for employees (organisation of assistance to unemployed).

(e)

Family allowances for salaried employees and family allowances for employers and self-employed workers.

All the above-mentioned schemes are of a contributory nature.

Denmark:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

Sickness insurance (sickness, maternity, death).

(b)

Accident insurance.

(c)

Unemployment insurance.

(d)

Various medical services.

(e)

Temporary law on family benefits.

All these schemes are of a contributory nature, except (d) and (e) which are of a non-contributory nature.

France:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

The organisation of social security.

(b)

General provisions governing the social insurance system applicable to insured persons in non-agricultural employment.

(c)

Social insurance provisions applicable to employed persons, and persons treated as employed persons, in agricultural employment.

(d)

Family allowances.

(e)

Provisions for the prevention of, and compensation for, employment injuries.

(f)

Special social security schemes.

(g)

The granting of unemployment allowances.

All the above schemes except that listed under (g) are of a contributory nature.

Federal Republic of Germany:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

Sickness insurance (sickness, maternity, death grants).

(b)

Insurance against employment injuries (including disablement scheme for prisoners).

(c)

Unemployment insurance and assistance.

All the above schemes except that covering unemployment assistance are of a contributory nature.

Greece:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

Social insurance, including unemployment insurance.

(b)

Special schemes for certain categories of workers.

These schemes are of a contributory nature.

Iceland:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

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(i)

Sickness insurance.

(ii)

Sickness benefits, daily allowances.

(iii)

Maternity and death grants.

(b)

Accident insurance.

(c)

Family allowances.

All these schemes are of a contributory nature.

Ireland:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

National health insurance.

(b)

Workmen's compensation.

(c)

Unemployment insurance.

(d)

Unemployment assistance.

(e)

Intermittent unemployment insurance.

(f)

Children's allowances.

(g)

The diagnosis, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

(h)

The grant of allowances to persons suffering from infectious disease.

(i)

Maternity and child welfare medical schemes.

(j)

The school medical service.

The Schemes listed under (a), (e) and (e) above are of a contributory nature. The others are non-contributory. (The scheme mentioned under (b) imposes an obligation on employers, with no State contribution.)

Italy:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

Compulsory sickness insurance.

(b)

Compulsory insurance against tuberculosis.

(c)

Compulsory insurance against employment injuries.

(d)

Physical and economic protection of working mothers in so far as provisions for economic benefits for those among them who are pregnant or confined are concerned.

(e)

Benefits for unemployed.

(f)

Special compulsory insurance schemes for certain categories of employees.

(g)

Family benefits.

The scheme mentioned under (e) above is partly of a contributory nature and partly non-contributory. All other schemes are contributory.

Luxembourg:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

Sickness insurance (sickness, maternity and death).

(b)

Employment injury insurance, including provisions for accident pension increments.

(c)

Unemployment benefits.

(d)

Family allowances, including birth grants to independent workers: including also provisions respecting the admission of frontier workers working in the Grand Duchy to family allowances. The above schemes, with the exception of unemployment allowances and birth grants to independent workers, are of a contributory character.

Netherlands:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

Health insurance (benefits in cash and in kind, maternity).

(b)

Insurance against employment injuries including provisions relating to pensions increments.

(c)

Family allowances (wage-earners, pensioners, self-employed workers).

(d)

Unemployment insurance and assistance.

(e)

Health insurance for miners (benefits in cash and in kind, maternity).

(f)

Family allowances for miners.

The above-mentioned schemes are of a contributory nature, with the following exceptions: family allowances for self-employed persons and for pensioners and unemployment assistance.

Norway:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

Sickness insurance (sickness, maternity, death).

(b)

Accident insurance of industrial employees, &c.

Accident insurance for fishermen.

Accident insurance for seamen.

(c)

Unemployment insurance.

(d)

Family allowances.

These schemes, with the exception of that covering family allowances, are of a contributory nature.

Saar:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

Sickness insurance (sickness, maternity, death).

(b)

Insurance against employment injuries.

(c)

Family allowances.

(d)

Unemployment insurance and assistance.

These schemes, with the exception of unemployment assistance, are of a contributory nature.

Sweden:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

Sickness insurance.

(b)

Insurance against industrial accidents and occupational diseases.

(c)

Unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance.

(d)

Common family allowances.

(e)

Maternity grants.

(f)

Various medical services.

The schemes listed under (a) and (b) and the unemployment insurance Scheme listed under (e) are of a contributory nature. The schemes listed under (e) are partly contributory and partly non-contributory. The unemployment assistance scheme listed under (e) and the schemes listed under (d) and (f) are non-contributory.

Turkey:

Laws and regulations relating to:

(a)

Sickness and maternity insurance.

(b)

Insurance relating to employment injuries and maternity.

(c)

Special schemes for certain categories of workers.

(d)

Provisions concerning the civil liability of employers to pay compensation for employment injuries contracted by wage-earners who are not covered by the compulsory social insurance scheme.

All these schemes are of a contributory nature.

United Kingdom:

Laws and regulations concerning Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and the Isle of Man:

(a)

Establishing insurance schemes in respect of unemployment, sickness and death and of the confinement of women.

(b)

Establishing insurance schemes in respect of personal injury caused by industrial accident and of prescribed diseases and injuries due to employment.

(c)

Establishing the scheme of family allowances.

(d)

Establishing the national health services.

(e)

Relating to the obsolete schemes of workmen's compensation for industrial accidents and diseases insofar as they continue to have effect.

The schemes listed under (a) and (b) are of a contributory nature. Those listed under (c) and (d) are of a non-contributory nature.