BELGIUM:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a) The income guaranteed to aged persons.
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b) Retirement and survivors' pensions: schemes for employed persons and for self-employed
persons.
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c) Sickness and invalidity insurance: schemes for employed persons and for self-employed
persons.
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d) Allowances for handicapped persons.
The schemes listed under a) and d) are of a non-contributory nature, the others being
contributory.
CYPRUS:
Social Insurance Law and the Regulations made thereunder which establish a scheme
providing benefits in respect of old-age, invalidity and benefits payable to survivors
(widow's pension and orphan's benefit).
The scheme is of a contributory nature.
DENMARK:
Laws and regulations relating to:
All these schemes are of a non-contributory nature, with the exception of the Labour
Market Supplementary Pension which implies contributions from the employers and the
employees.
FRANCE:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a) The organisation of social security.
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b) General provisions governing the social insurance system applicable to insured persons
in non-agricultural employment.
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c) Social insurance provisions applicable to employed persons, and persons treated as
employed persons, in agricultural employment.
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d) Allowances granted to aged employees.
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e) Allowances granted to aged persons other than employees.
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f) Special social security schemes.
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g) Laws on special allowances.
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h) Allowances for compensation to the blind and to seriously disabled workers.
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i) The additional benefit paid by the Fonds national de Solidarity.
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j) Law No. 65/555 of 10 July 1965, published in the Official Gazette of the French Republic
on 11 July 1965, extending to all persons of French nationality working elsewhere
than on French territory (whether employees or not) the option of joining the voluntary
insurance scheme.
The schemes listed under a), b), c) and f) above are of a contributory nature.
The schemes listed under d), g), h) and i) are non-contributory.
The laws relating to e) provide, first, for a permanent scheme of a contributory nature,
and, secondly, for a temporary scheme of a non-contributory nature applied to persons
who do not fulfill the conditions governing payment of contributions prescribed under
the contributory scheme.
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a) Pension insurance for manual workers.
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b) Pension insurance for salaried employees and artisans.
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c) Pension insurance for miners.
Alle these schemes are of a contributory nature.
GREECE:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a) Social insurance.
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b) Special pension schemes for certain categories of workers, including certain liberal
professions (lawyers, doctors, civil engineers, etc.).
These schemes are of a contributory nature.
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c) The system of family allowances applicable to employed persons (Legislative Decree
No. 3868/1959 and Regulations).
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d) Social Insurance for Agricultural workers (Law 4169/1961, Legislative Decrees and
Regulations).
ICELAND:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a) Old-age pensions.
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b) Invalidity pensions.
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c)
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i) Children's annuities.
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ii) Widows' annuities.
For the purpose of this Agreement, these schemes are accepted as non-contributory.
IRELAND:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a) Non-contributory Old Age and Blind Persons' Pensions.
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b) Contributory Old Age, Retirement and Invalidity Pensions.
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c) Widows' and Orphans' pensions, contributory and non-contributory.
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d) Disabled persons' (maintenance) allowances.
The scheme listed under d) above is non-contributory.
ITALY:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a) General compulsory insurance in case of invalidity, old age and death.
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b) Special compulsory insurance schemes for certain categories of employees.
These schemes are of a contributory nature.
LUXEMBOURG:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a) Pensions insurance for wage earners.
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b) Pensions insurance for salaried employees in private employment (including intellectual
self-employed persons).
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c) Supplementary insurance for wage earners in mining and metal working, technicians
employed in underground mines and professional drivers.
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d) Pensions insurance for artisans and for self-employed persons in commerce and industry.
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e) Pensions insurance for agricultural cultivators.
The schemes are all contributory except the provisional pensions for artisans.
NETHERLANDS:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a) Insurance in case of incapacity for work.
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b) General insurance in case of incapacity for work.
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c) General old-age insurance.
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d) Pension scheme for minors.
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e) General insurance for widows and orphans.
The schemes mentioned under a), b), d) and e) are contributory. The legislation mentioned
under c) introduces a permanent contributory scheme and a transitional non-contributory
scheme for persons no longer entitled to normal benefit by reason of their advanced
age at the time when this legislation came into force.
NORWAY:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a) Old-age, invalidity and survivors pensions under the National Insurance Act of 17
June 1966.
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b) Special Supplement to benefits from the National Insurance Scheme under the Act of
19 June 1969.
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c) Compensation Supplement to benefits from the National Insurance Scheme under the Act
of 19 December 1969.
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d) Pension insurance for seamen under the Act of 3 December 1948.
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e) Pension insurance for forestry workers under the Act of 3 December 1951.
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f) Pension insurance for fishermen under the Act of 28 June 1957.
The schemes listed under a) are non-contributory as far as the basic pension is concerned
and contributory as far as the supplementary pension is concerned. The schemes listed
under b) and c) are non-contributory while the schemes listed under d), e) and f)
are contributory.
PORTUGAL:
Laws and regulations on:
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a) Invalidity and old-age pensions.
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b) Survivors' pensions.
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c) Special social insurance schemes for specific categories of workers insofar as they
concern contingencies or benefits covered by the laws and regulations mentioned above
(including agricultural and self-employed workers).
All these schemes are contributory.
SWEDEN:
Laws and regulations relating to:
This scheme is non-contributory.
TURKEY:
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a) The Social Insurance legislation in force applying to the employed persons, excluding
agricultural workers other than those employed in forestry works and those employed
on wages in the public or private gricultural works and those employed in such works
which are related agricultural crafts or carried out at agricultural work places without
being considered as agricultural works and those employed in the parks, gardens or
plant nurseries or in similar works at such work places which are not considered as
agricultural work places:
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b) The legislation pertaining to the special regime applying to the Social Insurance
Funds which have been taken into the scope of the social insurance system and which,
as a minimum requirement, are charged with the application of the above legislation.
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c) The Social Insurance legislation applied to small businessmen and artisans and the
other self-employed persons:
The above schemes are contributory.
UNITED KINGDOM:
Laws and regulations concerning Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man:
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a) Establishing insurance schemes in respect of sickness, widowhood, orphanhood and old
age.
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b) Relating to supplementary pensions and non-contributory invalidity pensions.
The schemes mentioned under a) are contributory. The schemes mentioned under b) are
non-contributory.