Social security: employed persons, self-employed persons and their families (amend. Regul. 1408/71/EEC)

OBJECTIVE: Regulations 1408/71/EEC and 574/72/EEC are amended in order to take account of changes made by Member States to their social-security legislation and to introduce a number of technical amendments designed to extend existing Community legislation in this area. - COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Regulation (EEC) No 3095/95 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 concerning the application of social security schemes to employees, the self-employed and members of their families who move between Member States within the Community, Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 laying down the conditions for the application of Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71, Regulation (EEC) No 1247/92 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 and Regulation (EEC) No 1945/93 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1247/92. - SUBSTANCE: The main amendments concern the following points: . to extend the benefits provided under Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 in respect of immediate health care for all non-member country nationals who are insured under the legislation of a Member State and for family members who reside with them, even if their status is not that of an employee or self-employed worker, in order to facilitate temporary residency and access to health care with the authorisation of the institution concerned, in the territory of the Community; . insofar as a worker who is fully unemployed is entitled to sickness and maternity benefits and family allowances, and to the validation of periods of unemployment in respect of disability and old-age pensions, in the State in which he or she is resident, to make provision for the State concerned to deduct national insurance contributions relating to this type of benefit; . to ensure that a family will not lose its right to family allowances due to short-term statutory time limits for claiming. The remaining amendments are all of a technical nature: . consolidation of transitional arrangements relating to special non-contributory benefits, . consideration of amendments of an interpretative or internal nature which have been made to the legislation of certain Member States in the field of social security, as well as of bilateral agreements made between Member States, in order to extend Community legislation in this area. - ENTRY INTO FORCE: apart from certain specific points, for which the application of the regulation is put back to 01.01.1998 (and in the case of France to 01.01.2002), the regulation shall take effect on 01.01.1996. �