Frances Fitzgerald
Question:322 Ms Fitzgerald asked the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs the EU directives, under the aegis of his Department that are outstanding and remain to be implemented in Irish law to date. [17978/00]
Written Answers. - EU Directives.
There is one directive relating to my Department which remains to be transposed into Irish law. This is Council Directive 98/49/EC on the safeguarding of the supplementary pension rights of employed and self employed persons moving within the European Community, which was adopted on 29 June 1998.
The directive primarily deals with the preservation of benefits, disclosure of information and payment of occupational pensions across borders for workers who move from one member state to another. It also provides for workers who are posted abroad to be allowed to stay in their occupational schemes and to be exempt from joining such a scheme in the country to which they are posted.
Member states are required to bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative arrangements necessary to comply with the directive not later than 25 July 2001.
In order to comply with the terms of the directive, an amendment to the Pensions Act is necessary. This amendment will be incorporated into the new Pensions Bill, which I expect to
publish later this summer.