Equal treatment for men and women: statutory and occupational social security schemes

This proposal for a Council directive concerns the completion of the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in statutory and occupational social security schemes. It would complement directives 79/7 and 86/378 which already deal with the principle of equal treatment and would extend the principal to: (a) the provisions of statutory shcemes concerning survivors benefits end family benefits; (b) the corresponding provisions of occupationnal schemes (including those concerning the family benefits of occupational schemes for self-employed workers); (c) the areas excluded or deferred in the two above-mentionned directives; (d) the provisions concerning social assistance, where they are intended to supplement the benefits referred to under (a), (b), (c) or to replace them.