Article 7

the determination of pensionable age for the purposes of granting old-age and retirement pensions and the possible consequences thereof for other benefits;

advantages in respect of old-age pension schemes granted to persons who have brought up children; the acquisition of benefit entitlements following periods of interruption of employment due to the bringing up of children;

the granting of old-age or invalidity benefit entitlements by virtue of the derived entitlements of a wife;

the granting of increases of long-term invalidity, old-age, accidents at work and occupational disease benefits for a dependent wife;

the consequences of the exercise, before the adoption of this Directive, of a right of option not to acquire rights or incur obligations under a statutory scheme.