EESSI - project

Advisory Committee meeting

22 October 2010

DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities 1

EESSI (Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information)

• EESSI is a core element in the new Regulations:

– Enables institutions to exchange information electronically under a common secure network

– Gives effect to the principle of enhanced cooperation between the Member States

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EESSI - implementation

Identification of the Business (flows, messages)

Creation of a Europeaninfrastructure to exchange

the messages

Implementation of EESSI is a twofold activity

EESSI: High-level Architecture

MemberState 1

MemberState 2

CICI

MemberState 4

CI

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CI

CI CICI CICI

CICI

Member State 3

CI

CI

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MemberState “n”

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CoordinationNode CI Competent

InstitutionAccessPoint

NationalNetwork

NationalNetwork

NationalNetwork

NationalNetwork

sTESTA

EESSIInternational Network

NationalNetwork

NationalNetwork

Public EESSI Directory Interface

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Link to Directory Services on new DG EMPL website

EESSI – planning 2009-2012

Development and Implementation of EESSI system currently in progress with Siemens IT Solutions and Services

1 May 2010: Directory Services operational

March 2011: EESSI data messaging system operational

March 2010 –Apr 2012: National administrations in Member States to be connected to EESSI

Development of flows and SEDs - process

• SEDs and flows defined for ALL social security sectors

on official DG EMPL website in section “Official Documents”:http://ec.europa.eu/social-security-coordination

• Available in all official languages in Spring 2011 (third batch – first and second batch in Nov 2010)

• Guidelines available end 2010

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Paper version of SEDs

• Paper versions of the SEDs developed that can be used by institutions until EESSI is operational and exchange of SEDs can be done electronically.

• Paper SEDs only for temporary use until end of the transitional period (30 April 2012), when all institutions must be connected to the EESSI system– Article 95 Reg 987/2009: Transitional period of 2 years for

implementation EESSI

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Paper SED - example

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Portable documents

• Issued to citizens to certify social security rights

• 9 portable documents identified - replace old E-forms issued under Regulation 1408/71

• No transitional period : to be used as of 1 May 2010. • Can be found in all official languages on official DG EMPL

website in section “Official Documents”.(P1 soon available in all languages)

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Portable Documents Portable document

Equivalent E form Explanation

A1 E 101 Certificate for appl. legislation

S1 E 106, E 109, E 120 and E 121 Registration for health care cover

S2 E 112 Entitlement to scheduled care

S3 - Medical treatment for former cross-border worker in former country of work (new or continued treatment)

DA1 E 123 Entitlement to health care cover under accident insurance

U1 E 301 Certification of insurance periods for entitlement to UB

U2 E 303 Retention of UB entitlement

U3 - Change of circumstances

P1 E211 Summary of Pensions Decisions

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Source: European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities 13

A document for individuals

Portable documents

EESSI - Challenges

highly integrative effort

• Must bridge 31 countries with different business practices and different IT systems that have to be connected

• 67 Access Points (can increase to 150 APs – 5 per Member State)

• 10,000-15,000 institutions to be connected

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EESSI: Challenges II

Size of the business

• 200 E-forms to be converted into messages for use in EESSI

• EESSI Model comprises 85 business flows and more than 300 SEDs

• Communication in EESSI requires common agreement of end users on the business

EESSI newsletter

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