{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-77/annex/division-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-77/annex/division-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2005/77",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 77/2005 of 13 January 2005 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-77",
  "path": "annex/division/4",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Annex 4 is amended as follows",
  "text": "(a) Section ‘D. GERMANY’ is amended as follows:\nPoint 3(b) is replaced by the following:\n(b) ‘for the purposes of applying Articles 51 and 53 (1) of the implementing Regulation, and under the heading “Paying body” referred to in Article 55 of the implementing Regulation:\n(i) dealings with Belgium and Spain:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Rheinprovinz (Regional Insurance Office of the Rhine Province), Düsseldorf;\n(ii) dealings with Denmark, Finland and Sweden:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Schleswig-Holstein (Regional Insurance Office of Schleswig-Holstein), Lübeck;\n(iii) dealings with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Regional Insurance Office of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), Neubrandenburg;\n(iv) dealings with France:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Rheinland-Pfalz (Regional Insurance Office of the Rhineland-Palatinate), Speyer, or,\nas a competent institution under Annex 2, Landesversicherungsanstalt für das Saarland (Regional Insurance Office of the Saarland), Saarbrücken;\n(v) dealings with Greece and Cyprus:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Baden-Württemberg (Regional Insurance Office of Baden-Württemberg), Karlsruhe;\n(vi) dealings with Italy:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Schwaben (Regional Insurance Office of Swabia), Augsburg, or,\nas a competent institution under Annex 2, Landesversicherungsanstalt für das Saarland (Regional Insurance Office of the Saarland), Saarbrücken;\n(vii) dealings with Luxembourg:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Rheinland-Pfalz (Regional Insurance Office of the Rhineland-Palatinate), Speyer, or,\nas a competent institution under Annex 2, Landesversicherungsanstalt für das Saarland (Regional Insurance Office of the Saarland), Saarbrücken;\n(viii) dealings with Malta:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Schwaben (Regional Insurance Office of Swabia), Augsburg;\n(ix) dealings with the Netherlands:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Westfalen (Regional Insurance Office of Westphalia), Münster;\n(x) dealings with Ireland and the United Kingdom:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Regional Insurance Office of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), Hamburg;\n(xi) dealings with Poland:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Berlin (Regional Insurance Office of Berlin), Berlin;\n(xii) dealings with Portugal:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Unterfranken (Regional Insurance Office of Lower Franconia), Würzburg;\n(xiii) dealings with Austria:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Oberbayern (Regional Insurance Office of Upper Bavaria), München;\n(xiv) dealings with Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Niederbayern-Oberpfalz (Regional Insurance Office of Lower Bavaria-Oberpfalz), Landshut;\n(xv) dealings with Hungary:\nLandesversicherungsanstalt Thüringen (Regional Insurance Office of Thuringia), Erfurt.’\n(b) Section ‘E. ESTONIA’ is replaced by the following:\n‘E.\nESTONIA\n1.\nSickness and maternity: Eesti Haigekassa (Estonian Health Insurance Fund).\n2.\nInvalidity, old-age and survivors’ pensions, death grants, family and parental benefits:\nSotsiaalkindlustusamet (Social Insurance Board).\n3.\nUnemployment:\nEesti Töötukassa (Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund)’.\n(c) Section ‘F. GREECE’ is amended as follows:\nPoint 1 is replaced by the following:\n‘1.\nIn general:\nΊδρυμα Κοινωνικών Ασφαλίσεων — Ενιαίο Ταμείο Ασφάλισης Μισθωτών (ΙΚΑ — ΕΤΑΜ)”, Αθήνα (Social Insurance Institute — Unified Insurance Fund for Employees (ΙΚΑ — ΕΤΑΜ), Athens).’\n(d) Section ‘G. SPAIN’ is amended as follows:\nPoints 3 and 4 are replaced by the following:\n‘3.\nFor unemployment benefits, with the exception of mariners:\nServicio Público de Empleo Estatal. INEM, Madrid (State Public Employment Service. INEM, Madrid).\n4.\nFor non-contributory old-age and invalidity pensions:\nInstituto de Mayores y Servicios Sociales, Madrid (Elderly and Social Services Institute, Madrid).’\n(e) Section ‘H. FRANCE’ is replaced by the following:\n‘H.\nFRANCE\nFor all branches and risks:\nCentre des Liaisons Européennes et Internationales de Sécurité Sociale — Centre for European and International Liaison on Social Security (formerly Centre de Sécurité Sociale des Travailleurs Migrants — Centre for the Social Security of Migrant Workers), Paris.’\n(f) Section ‘M. LITHUANIA’ is amended as follows:\nPoints 4, 5, and 6 are replaced as follows:\n‘4.\nDeath grant: Valstybinio socialinio draudimo fondo valdyba (State Social Insurance Fund Board);\n5.\nUnemployment: Lietuvos darbo birža (Lithuanian Labour Exchange);\n6.\nFamily benefits: Valstybinio socialinio draudimo fondo valdyba (State Social Insurance Fund Board).’\n(g) Section ‘S. POLAND’ is replaced by the following:\n‘S.\nPOLAND\n1.\nBenefits in kind: Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia (National Health Fund), Warszawa.\n2.\nCash benefits:\n(a) for sickness, maternity, disability, old-age, death, accidents at work and occupational diseases:\nZakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych — Centrala (Social Insurance Institution — ZUS-Main Headquarters), Warszawa,\nKasa Rolniczego Ubezpieczenia Społecznego — Centrala (Agricultural Social Insurance Fund — KRUS — Main Headquarters), Warszawa,\nZakład Emerytalno-Rentowy Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji (Pension Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration), Warszawa;\n(b) for unemployment:\nMinisterstwo Gospodarki i Pracy (Ministry of the Economy and Labour), Warszawa;\n(c) family benefits and other non-contributory benefits:\nMinisterstwo Polityki Społecznej (Ministry of Social Policy), Warszawa.’\n(h) Section ‘V. SLOVAKIA’ is replaced by the following:\n‘V.\nSLOVAKIA\n1.\nBenefits in cash:\n(a) Sickness and maternity:\nSociálna poist’ovňa (Social Insurance Agency), Bratislava;\n(b) Invalidity benefits:\nSociálna poist’ovňa (Social Insurance Agency), Bratislava;\n(c) Old-age benefits:\nSociálna poist’ovňa (Social Insurance Agency), Bratislava;\n(d) Survivors’ benefits:\nSociálna poist’ovňa (Social Insurance Agency), Bratislava;\n(e) Accidents at work and occupational diseases:\nSociálna poist’ovňa (Social Insurance Agency), Bratislava;\n(f) Death grants:\nÚstredie práce, sociálnych vecí a rodiny (Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family), Bratislava;\n(g) Unemployment:\nSociálna poist’ovňa (Social Insurance Agency), Bratislava;\n(h) Family benefits:\nÚstredie práce, sociálnych vecí a rodiny (Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family), Bratislava.\n2.\nBenefits in kind:\nÚrad pre dohľad nad zdravotnou starostlivosťou, Bratislava’.\n(i) Section ‘X. SWEDEN’ is replaced by the following:\n‘X.\nSWEDEN\n1.\nFor all contingencies except unemployment benefits:\nFörsäkringskassan (National Social Insurance Agency);\n2.\nFor unemployment benefits: Inspektionen för arbetslöshetsförsäkringen, IAF (The Unemployment Insurance Board).’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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