# Social security coordination

European Parliament procedure 2016/0397(COD) (COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure), 8th term, committee EMPL / PETI). Stage: Awaiting Council's 1st reading position. 754 committee amendments tabled by 75 Members between 2018-01-23 and 2018-03-02.

## What the amendments focus on

This dossier concerns the coordination of social security systems. Amendments revise provisions on long-term care, unemployment and family benefits, access to benefits for economically inactive mobile citizens conditioned on a legal right of residence, aggregation of insurance periods, the definition of "posting" versus "sending" of workers, equal treatment of employed and self-employed persons, fraud and abuse, electronic networking of social-security authorities, and the financial burden shared among Member States' institutions.

## Most active Members on this file

| Member | Country | Group | Amendments | Markdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sven SCHULZE | Germany | PPE | 145 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124809.md |
| Dieter-Lebrecht KOCH | Germany | PPE | 111 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/1852.md |
| Thomas MANN | Germany | PPE | 111 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/1922.md |
| Csaba SÓGOR | Romania | PPE | 94 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/39724.md |
| Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA | Poland | PPE | 86 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96781.md |
| Krzysztof HETMAN | Poland | PPE | 86 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124895.md |
| Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA | Poland | PPE | 86 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124889.md |
| Marek PLURA | Poland | PPE | 86 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124881.md |
| Gabriele ZIMMER | Germany | GUE/NGL | 83 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/28248.md |
| Kostadinka KUNEVA | Greece | GUE/NGL | 83 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/125092.md |
| Jean LAMBERT | United Kingdom | Verts/ALE | 67 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/4531.md |
| Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ | Czechia | PPE | 59 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124710.md |
| Marian HARKIN | Ireland | ALDE | 59 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/28116.md |
| Patrick LE HYARIC | France | GUE/NGL | 54 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96735.md |
| Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER | France | PPE | 45 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/38596.md |

## Official source documents

- PE616.559: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/EMPL-AM-616559_EN.pdf
- PE616.618: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/EMPL-AM-616618_EN.pdf
- PE616.619: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/EMPL-AM-616619_EN.pdf
- PE619.090: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PETI-AM-619090_EN.pdf

Full amendment texts, votes and exports: https://amendeu.com/dossiers/2016-0397-COD · machine-readable: https://amendeu.com/data/dossiers/2016-0397-COD.json

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