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1.Social security for migrant workers - Unemployment - Periods of insurance and periods of employment - Concepts

( Regulation No 1408/71 of the Council, Arts 1(r ) and ( s ) and 67(1 ) )

2.Social security for migrant workers - Unemployment - Legislation making the grant of benefits subject to the completion of periods of insurance - Aggregation of periods of insurance - Taking into account of periods of employment completed in another Member State - Conditions

( Regulation No 1408/71 of the Council, Art . 67(1 ) )

Summary

1 . Where entitlement to unemployment benefits is concerned, the term "periods of insurance" in Article 1(r ) of Regulation No 1408/71 must be understood as referring not only to periods in which contributions to an unemployment insurance scheme were paid but also to periods of employment considered by the legislation under which they were completed as equivalent to periods of insurance, that is to say periods in which insurance cover by such a scheme is guaranteed . The term "periods of employment" defined in Article 1(s ) of Regulation No 1408/71 thus covers only periods of work which, according to the legislation under which they were completed, are not regarded as periods conferring entitlement to affiliation to a scheme providing unemployment benefits .

2.For the grant of unemployment benefits, Article 67(1 ) of Regulation No 1408/71 does not make the aggregation, by the competent institution of a Member State whose legislation makes the grant of such benefits dependent on the completion of periods of insurance, of periods of employment completed in another Member State subject to the condition that such periods should be treated as periods of insurance for the same branch of social security by the legislation under which they were completed .