Social security: employed persons, self-employed persons and their families (amend. Regulations (EEC) No 1408/71 and (EEC) No 574/72)

The amendments accepted by the Commission intend to make the text clearer and more precise. To this end, the Commission has accepted the amendments which intends to: - refer in recital 3 to the name of the specific Austrian scheme insted of categorizing a benefit of which the nature is not clear; - bring the date of entry into force of the amendments relating to the inclusion of the statutory French supplementary pension schemes ARRCO and AGIRC in line with their notification by the French Government as of 1 January 2000; - ensure that the exemption of double calculation of pensions for the supplementary pension scheme for flying personnel employed in civil aviation. This scheme has been created by legislation and falls under the scope of the Regulation. As it is based not on pensions points but on pension periods a double calculation must not be excluded; - replace the reference to two specific UK benefits currently included in Annex IIa of Regulation 1408/71/EEC following a modification in UK legislation which renamed these benefits.�