Regulation (EC) No 883/2004

means any activity or equivalent situation treated as such for the purposes of the social security legislation of the Member State in which such activity or equivalent situation exists;

means any activity or equivalent situation treated as such for the purposes of the social security legislation of the Member State in which such activity or equivalent situation exists;

means the commission referred to in Article 71;

means:

means a person considered to be such or treated as such by the Member State to which the administration employing him/her is subject;

means, in respect of each Member State, the Minister, Ministers or other equivalent authority responsible for social security schemes throughout or in any part of the Member State in question;

means:

means the Member State in which the competent institution is situated;

means the continued investigation, diagnosis and treatment of an illness for its entire duration.

means any one-off payment in the event of death excluding the lump-sum benefits referred to in subparagraph w;

means a benefit provided before the normal pension entitlement age is reached and which either continues to be provided once the said age is reached or is replaced by another old-age benefit;

means the body established by Regulation (EU) 2019/1149 of the European Parliament and of the Council and referred to in Article 74a;

means all benefits in kind or in cash intended to meet family expenses, excluding advances of maintenance payments and special childbirth and adoption allowances mentioned in Annex I.

means any person pursuing an activity as an employed or self-employed person in a Member State and who resides in another Member State to which he/she returns as a rule daily or at least once a week;

means the Regulation referred to in Article 89;

means, in respect of each Member State, the body or authority responsible for applying all or part of the legislation;

means, in respect of each Member State, laws, regulations and other statutory provisions and all other implementing measures relating to the social security branches covered by Article 3(1);

means:

means periods of contribution, employment or self-employment as defined or recognised as periods of insurance by the legislation under which they were completed or considered as completed, and all periods treated as such, where they are regarded by the said legislation as equivalent to periods of insurance;

means periods so defined or recognised by the legislation under which they were completed or considered as completed;

shall mean all periods of insurance, employment, self-employment or residence which either qualify for, or directly increase, the benefit concerned.

means: all cash benefits, other than an unemployment benefit or an early old-age benefit, provided from a specified age to workers who have reduced, ceased or suspended their remunerative activities until the age at which they qualify for an old-age pension or an early retirement pension, the receipt of which is not conditional upon the person concerned being available to the employment services of the competent State;

means the place where a person habitually resides;

means those which:

means any social security scheme which is different from the general social security scheme applicable to employed persons in the Member State concerned and to which all, or certain categories of, civil servants are directly subject;

means temporary residence;

means any legislation under which the amount of invalidity benefits is independent of the duration of the periods of insurance or residence and which is expressly included by the competent Member State in Annex VI, and ‘type B legislation’ means any other legislation.

means any other legislation.

means work which, being dependent on the succession of the seasons, automatically recurs each year.