Press Release: Council adopts new rules for the coordination of social security systems

The Council today (27.7.2009) adopted two regulations modernising and simplifying the coordination of member states' social security systems, following an agreement with the European Parliament in second reading. The adoption of the two new regulations will allow the so-called new EU social security coordination rules (i.e. regulation 883/2004 and the implementing regulation adopted
today) to enter into application on 1 March 2010, after more than eleven years of negotiations. The new rules will replace the EU provisions currently in force1 on the
coordination of national social security systems.