BELGIUM:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a)
Sickness and invalidity insurance: schemes for employed persons and for self-employed persons.
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b)
Compensation for damage resulting from employment injuries.
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c)
Unemployment insurance.
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d)
Family benefits: schemes for employed persons and for self-employed persons.
All the above-mentioned schemes are of a contributory nature.
CYPRUS:
Social Insurance law and the Regulations made thereunder which establish a scheme providing unemployment benefit, sickness and maternity benefits (cash benefits), death grant and benefits in respect of personal injury by industrial accidents and prescribed diseases.
The scheme is of a contributory nature.
DENMARK:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a)
Daily cash benefits in the event of sickness, maternity and adoption.
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b)
Insurance against industrial injuries and occupational diseases.
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c)
Unemployment insurance.
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d)
Various medical services.
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e)
Family allowances.
All these schemes are of non-contributory nature, except b) and c) which are of a contributory nature.
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)
Family benefits.
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e)
Provisions for the prevention of, and compensation for, employment injuries.
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f)
Special social security schemes.
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g)
The granting of unemployment allowances.
All the above schemes except that listed under g) are of a contributory nature.
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a)
Sickness insurance (sickness, maternity, death grants).
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b)
Insurance against employment injuries (including work accident compensation for prisoners).
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c)
Unemployment insurance and assistance.
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d)
Family allowances.
All the above schemes except those covering family allowances and unemployment assistance are of a contributory nature.
GREECE:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a)
Social insurance, including unemployment insurance.
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b)
Special schemes for certain categories of workers.
These schemes are of a contributory nature.
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c)
The abolition of the direct contribution of farmers to the Agricultural workers insurance Institution (Legislative Decree No. 4575/1966).
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d)
The system of family allowances applicable to employed persons (Legislative Decree No. 3868/1959 and Regulations).
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e)
Social insurance for agricultural workers (Law 4169/1961, Legislative Decrees and Regulations).
ICELAND:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a)
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(i)
Sickness insurance.
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(ii)
Sickness benefits, daily allowances,
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(iii)
Maternity and death grants.
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b)
Accident insurance.
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c)
Unemployment insurance.
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d)
Family allowances.
All the above schemes except that listed under d) are of a contributory nature.
IRELAND:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a)
Disability, maternity benefits.
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b)
Unemployment benefit and assistance.
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c)
Intermittent unemployment insurance.
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d)
Death grant.
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e)
Occupational injuries and diseases.
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f)
Family allowances.
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g)
The diagnosis, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
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h)
The grant of allowances to persons suffering from infectious diseases,
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i)
Maternity and child welfare medical schemes.
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j)
The school medical service.
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k)
Maternity cash grants.
The schemes listed under f), g) h), i), j) and k) are non-contributory as also is unemployment assistance of b) above. The others are contributory (The scheme mentioned under d) imposes an obligation on employers with no State contribution).
ITALY:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a)
Sickness benefits, including tuberculosis and maternity.
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b)
Compulsory insurance against employment injuries.
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c)
Benefits for unemployed.
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d)
Special compulsory insurance schemes for certain categories of employees.
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e)
Family benefits.
The scheme mentioned under c) above and the sickness insurance schemes for landowning farmers, “metayers”, tenant-farmers, artisans and fishermen (independent workers) included among the special schemes mentioned under d) above are partly of a contributory nature and partly non-contributory. All other schemes are contributory.
LUXEMBOURG:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a)
Sickness insurance (sickness, maternity and death).
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b)
Employment injury and occupational diseases insurance.
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c)
Unemployment benefits.
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d)
Family benefits.
The above schemes, with the exception of birth grants, are of a contributory character.
NETHERLANDS:
Laws and regulations relating to:
The above-mentioned schemes are of a contributory nature, with the exception of unemployment assistance.
NORWAY:
Laws and regulations relating to:
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a)
Sickness, maternity and death grants under the National Insurance Act of 17 June 1966.
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b)
The Act on insurance against occupational injuries of 12 December 1958 (applicable in the case of injuries having occurred before 1 January 1971).
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c)
Occupational injuries under the National Insurance Act of 17 June 1966 (applicable in the case of injuries occurring after 1 January 1971).
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d)
Special Supplement to benefits from the National Insurance Schemes under the Act of 19 June 1969.
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e)
Compensation Supplement to benefits from the National Insurance Scheme under the Act of 19 December 1969.
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f)
Unemployment insurance under the National Insurance Act of 17 June 1966.
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g)
Family allowances under the Act of 24 October 1946.
The schemes listed under a), b), c) and f) are contributory and the schemes listed under d), e) and g) are non-contributory.
PORTUGAL:
Laws and regulations on:
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a)
Health insurance (including the special tuberculosis scheme).
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b)
Maternity insurance.
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c)
Death grants.
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d)
Compensation for losses arising from industrial accidents and occupational diseases.
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e)
Unemployment insurance.
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f)
Family allowances.
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g)
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:
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a)
Sickness insurance.
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b)
Insurance against industrial accidents and occupational diseases.
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c)
Unemployment insurances and unemployment assistance.
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d)
Common family allowances.
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e)
Maternity grants.
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f)
Various medical services.
The scheme listed under b) and the unemployment insurance scheme listed under c) are of a contributory nature. The scheme listed under a), the unemployment assistance scheme listed under c) and the schemes listed under d), e) and f) are non-contributory.
TURKEY:
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a)
The Social Insurance Legislation in force applying to employed persons, excluding the small businessmen and artisans and the other self-employed persons and excluding agricultural workers other than those employed in forestry works and those employed on wages in the public and private agricultural works and those employed in such works which are related to 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.
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 unemployment, sickness and death and of the confinement of women.
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b)
Establishing insurance schemes in respect of personal injury caused by industrial accident and of prescribed diseases and injuries due to employment.
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c)
Establishing the scheme of family allowances.
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d)
Establishing the national health services.
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e)
Establishing the supplementary benefits' scheme.
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f)
Relating to the obsolete schemes of workmen's compensation for industrial accidents and diseases insofar as they continue to have effect.
The schemes listed under a) and b) are of a contributory nature. Those listed under c), d) and e) are of a non-contributory nature.