Translation of "Prestation d'assurance pour les personnes à charge " (French → English) :

25. Calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to analyse and counteract the negative effects of reductions in public spending and social benefits, especially in the context of cuts in public spending at local level, in order to ensure that women are not left with a disproportionate burden of care (children, the elderly, and dependent persons);

(4) In line with the conclusions of the Spring European Council of 22 and 23 March 2005, the objectives of full employment, job quality, labour productivity and social cohesion must be reflected in clear priorities: to enable a greater number of citizens, including women, and people over 50, to exercise a professional activity in an employed or self-employed capacity; to invest more in human capital by improving education and vocational training, and by promoting diversification of career choices, particularly for girls, in order to increase men’s and women’s fitness for employment throughout their working lives; promoting equal treatm ...[+++]ent and opportunities for women and men on the employment market through affirmative measures on behalf of the underrepresented sex and an adequate, diversified supply of care arrangements for children and dependants; to offer businesses the necessary environment, inter alia in terms of tax, social charges and good governance, for them to adapt and restructure in order to be in a position to meet the challenges of innovation and technological development with a supply of products and services that respond to changing demand; these measures will help to safeguard a European social model based on appropriate social security system contributions and services and to guarantee their viability and solvency.

Depending on personal status and/or type of stay, EU citizens are entitled to immediately necessary care, to care which becomes necessary, or to all sickness benefits in kind in a Member State other than the one in which they are insured against sickness as if they were insured there, but at the expense of the institution of insurance.

(15) In order to fill the gaps in question, it should be provided that the Member State where the insurance undertaking is authorised should require the undertaking to appoint claims representatives resident or established in the other Member States to collect all necessary information in relation to claims resulting from such accidents and to take appropriate action to settle the claims on behalf and for the account of the insurance undertaking, including the payment of compensation therefor; claims representatives should have s ...[+++]ufficient powers to represent the insurance undertaking in relation to persons suffering damage from such accidents, and also to represent the insurance undertaking before national authorities including, where necessary, before the courts, in so far as this is compatible with the rules of private international law on the conferral of jurisdiction.

Whereas, in order to fill the gaps in question, it should be provided that the Member State where the insurance undertaking is authorised should require the undertaking to appoint claims representatives resident or established in the other Member States to collect all necessary information in relation to claims resulting from such accidents and to take appropriate action to settle the claims on behalf and for the account of the insurance undertaking, including the payment ...[+++]of compensation therefor; whereas claims representatives should have sufficient powers to represent the insurance undertaking in relation to persons suffering damage from such accidents, and also to represent the insurance undertaking before national authorities including, where necessary, before the courts, in so far as this is compatible with the rules of private international law on the conferral of jurisdiction ;

Moreover, financial or administrative penalties may be imposed if the injured party's claim for compensation presented to the insurance undertaking of the person who caused the accident or to its claims representative has not received a response within a period of three months.