Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-02-Speech-2-171"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Coordination of social security systems2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030902.7.2-171"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-02-Speech-2-1722
lpv:speaker	lp:Regina Bastos2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (2000-09-01--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Social Democrata (2000-09-01--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Regulation 1408/71 has been around for more than three decades and was created in order to coordinate Member State legislation in the field of social security. Its main aim is to ensure that workers moving within European Union territory do not suffer disadvantages in their social security rights. Over the years, various amendments have been made to this regulation that have made it extremely complex and some very positive developments have taken place in the social security systems of the various Member States, including my own. These facts demonstrate the urgent need for this regulation to be reformed. The Commission’s proposal, which is to be welcomed, clearly sets out the aim to be attained: to coordinate social security systems with the prospect of enlargement in mind. This involves coordination and not harmonisation. The intention is to modernise and simplify the regulation and, in this context, a significant step forwards has been taken in various areas, in particular with regard to the rights of the unemployed, pensioners and frontier workers and their families. The list of types of social security covered by coordination has also been extended and measures are set out for solving the problem of double taxation. The rapporteur has really shown great commitment to the work on reforming this regulation and I congratulate her on this. I must state, however, that some of the proposals she has put forward raise difficulties, which meant that the PPE members of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs had to vote against the report. I shall confine myself to discussing one of them, which concerns the definition of the family: Each Member State recognises a particular concept of the family in accordance with its national legal system. It would not, therefore, be legitimate to impose any type of family model on the Member States."@en1

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