Translation of "Conjoint séparé " (French → English) :

5. Stresses that Directive 2003/86/EC has not yet been satisfactorily implemented by all Member States, leaving substantial scope for discriminatory treatment of women immigrants; calls on the Commission, in the context of the evaluation report which it is required to submit, to put forward proposals for amendments to the relevant articles aimed at reducing significantly (if possible within one year of their arrival) the time required for a partner to acquire autonomous and independent status of that of their spouse, ensuring that they retain it in the event of their bond with their spouse being broken (separation, divorce, widowhood, e ...[+++]tc.) and eliminating the possibility of imposing restrictions on access to the labour market and all social services;

(a) For the purpose of calculating the pension under the lov om social pension (Social Pension Act), periods of activity as an employed or self-employed person completed in Denmark by a frontier worker or a worker who has gone to Denmark to do work of a seasonal nature are regarded as periods of residence completed in Denmark by the surviving spouse insofar as, during those periods, the surviving spouse was linked to the above-mentioned worker by marriage without separation from bed and board or de facto separation on grounds of incompatibility and provided that during those periods the spouse resided in the territory of another Member S ...[+++]tate.

1 (a) For the purpose of calculating the pension under the lov om social pension (Social Pension Act), periods of activity as an employed or self-employed person completed under Danish legislation by a frontier worker or a worker who has gone to Denmark to do work of a seasonal nature are regarded as periods of residence completed in Denmark by the surviving spouse insofar as, during those periods, the surviving spouse was linked to the above-mentioned worker by marriage without separation from bed and board or de facto separation on grounds of incompatibility and provided that during those periods the spouse resided in the territory of ...[+++]another Member State.

(b) For the purpose of calculating the pension under the lov om social pension (Social Pension Act), periods of activity as an employed or self-employed person completed in Denmark before 1 January 1984 by a person to whom paragraph 2(a) does not apply shall be regarded as periods of residence completed under Danish legislation by the surviving spouse, insofar as, during those periods, the surviving spouse was linked to the person by marriage without separation from bed and board or de facto separation on grounds of incompatibility, and provided that, during those periods, the spouse resided in the territory of another Member State.

In 1993, 63 women were killed by their spouses, 49 by their legal or common law husbands and 14 by separated or divorced spouses.

In 1987 credit splitting was extended to separated spouses and the time limit was removed for divorced spouses but only if the divorce occurred after January 1, 1987.