Definitions
Article 3
For the purposes of this Directive the following definitions apply:
1. ’supplementary pension’ means a retirement pension provided for by the rules of a supplementary pension scheme established in accordance with national law and practice;
2. ’supplementary pension scheme’ means any occupational retirement pension scheme established in accordance with national law and practice and linked to an employment relationship, intended to provide a supplementary pension for employed persons;
3. ’active scheme members’ means workers whose current employment relationship entitles them or is likely to entitle them, after fulfilling any acquisition conditions, to a supplementary pension in accordance with the provisions of a supplementary pension scheme;
4. ’waiting period’ means the period of employment, required under national law or by the rules of a supplementary pension scheme or by the employer, before a worker becomes eligible for membership of a scheme;
5. ’vesting period’ means the period of active membership of a scheme, required under national law or the rules of a supplementary pension scheme, in order to trigger entitlement to the accumulated supplementary pension rights;
6. ’vested pension rights’ means any entitlement to the accumulated supplementary pension rights after the fulfilment of any acquisition conditions, under the rules of a supplementary pension scheme and, where applicable, under national law;
7. ’outgoing worker’ means an active scheme member whose current employment relationship terminates for reasons other than becoming eligible for a supplementary pension and who moves between Member States;
8. ’deferred beneficiary’ means a former active scheme member who has vested pension rights in a supplementary pension scheme and is not yet in receipt of a supplementary pension from that scheme;
9. ’dormant pension rights’ means vested pension rights retained within the scheme in which they have been accrued by a deferred beneficiary;
10. ’value of the dormant pension rights’ means the capital value of the pension rights calculated in accordance with national law and practice.