Armin Hohenadler

All these agreements are based on the concept of shared responsibility. Shared responsibility agreements are reciprocal. Under each agreement, partner countries make concessions on their social security rules so that people covered by the agreement have access to payments for which they might not otherwise be entitled. In this way, the responsibility for social security is shared between the countries where a person has lived during his or her working years and the person can release potential rights. As a general rule, a pension from one country may be received in the second country, although the paying country retains some discretion in the currency used and in the delivery mechanisms used. * third-country nationals (i.e. persons residing in a Member State but not having the nationality of an EU, EEA or Swiss country) are subject to EU rules on social security affiliation. The rules applicable to third-country nationals apply directly in all EU countries except Denmark and the United Kingdom. The three EEA countries, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein, as well as Switzerland, are not covered by the rules applicable to third-country nationals. This means that the conventions only apply to people who are not covered by EU rules on social security affiliation. In addition to Sweden, the following countries are Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Austria and the United Kingdom.

The other EEA countries are Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. At the end of the maximum posting period, posted workers are no longer covered by the social security of the country of origin. At the end of the posting period, the fees will no longer be paid in Sweden. Some conventions are structured in such a way that seconded staff remain in the social security system of the country of origin for a period specified in each agreement and then transferred to the social security system of the country of work. . . .