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lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I would like to start by paying tribute to our rapporteur on this topic. Ria Oomen-Ruijten is very well known in this House – and indeed outside it – as a champion of the rights of cross-border workers. She will be sorely missed in Parliament in the future. I thoroughly agree with her when she talks about the need for those taking up the right to free movement not to be penalised, and to be able to maintain occupational pension rights. But we have seen the difficulties caused by long vesting periods and the implications this also has for age limits on cross-border transfer. We have also seen the irony – I remember from one all-party group meeting on pensions in this House – of the pensions expert addressing us being somebody who, because of his work patterns – two years here, three years there in particular Member States – had actually no acquired occupational pension rights whatsoever. What we have on the table here, while it is certainly not what many of us might have wished for, is nevertheless better. It is better in terms of the age dimension, the shorter vesting period and informed consent – the information that workers have to have – and certainly fairer in terms of the treatment of dormant rights. It has taken us a long time to get to this point. I think many of us would hope that we will see greater possibilities for transferability from one pension scheme to another – being able to take cash across and actually pay it into another scheme so that we avoid this kind of chopping, this fragmentation into different schemes. Nevertheless I think what we have before us is welcome, and about time too."@en1
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