(a)

care insurance benefits in kind giving entitlement to full or partial direct payment of certain expenditure entailed by the insured person’s reliance on care and incurred for his or her direct benefit, for example nursing care and home help provided in the home or in specialised establishments, purchases of care equipment, or work carried out to improve the home environment; benefits of this kind are essentially intended to supplement sickness insurance benefits in kind in order to improve the state of health and the quality of life of persons reliant on care;

(b)

benefits in kind not arising from care insurance but having the same characteristics and purposes as those referred to in (a) above, in so far as they may be regarded as social security benefits in kind within the meaning of the Basic Regulation and may be acquired in the same way as those referred to in (a) in accordance with the provisions of the abovementioned Articles of the Basic Regulation.

The benefits in kind referred to in (a) and (b) shall be included in the expenditure referred to in point 1 above.

(a)

Expenditure linked to the administration of the sickness insurance scheme, for example costs which are incurred by the handling and processing of reimbursements to individuals and between institutions;

(b)

Expenditure linked to the award of benefits, such as doctor’s fees for issuing medical certificates needed to evaluate a claimant’s degree of invalidity or ability to perform work;

(c)

Expenditure on medical research and subsidies to institutions of preventive medicine, granted for general health protection measures, as well as expenditure on measures of a general (not risk-related) nature;

(d)

Co-payments made by individuals.

(a)

the amount of benefits in kind provided under the national schemes in the Member State of residence on the basis of Articles 17, 24(1), 25 and 26 of the Basic Regulation;

(b)

the amount of benefits in kind provided on the basis of scheduled treatment outside the Member State of residence in accordance with Articles 20 and 27(3) and (5) of the Basic Regulation;

(c)

the cost of benefits in kind provided which an insured person received during temporary stay outside the state of residence in so far as the costs of those benefits have to be carried under national law; except for the costs provided for in point II paragraph 5 letter (a) of this Decision.

(a)

the amount of benefits provided during a temporary stay outside the state of residence on the basis of Articles 19(1) and 27(1) of the Basic Regulation;

(b)

the amount of benefits refunded in accordance with the Basic Regulation or on the basis of bilateral or multilateral agreements with the exception of refunds for scheduled treatment.