Social security: unemployed persons

In its amended proposal the Commission has taken over all of the amendments adopted by Parliament. The amendments in question seek to: - guarantee that unemployment benefits will continue to be paid to unemployed persons undergoing training in another Member State, provided that they would qualify for the same benefits if they completed the same form of training in their country of origin; - stipulate that if Luxembourg is the State responsible for a frontier worker's unemployment benefits, the transitional period for reimbursement of benefits by one institution concerned to another will be reduced to five years (instead of ten); - remove the exception made for Belgium in the light of the very restrictive interpretation on which the Court of Justice based its ruling handed down in the Spataro case on 13 June 1996 (Case C-170/95). �