Text tabled : A7-0043/2012

  Antonello Antinoro (PPE). – (IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I voted in favour of this proposal because it seeks to update the 2004 and 2009 regulations to incorporate changes to Member State national legislation on social security and to keep pace with the changing social reality affecting the coordination of the security systems themselves.

The present proposal also incorporates proposals from the Administrative Commission for the Coordination of Social Security Systems, whose purpose is to improve, modernise and realise all of this, as set out in Article 72(f) of the previous regulation.

Indeed, the amendments in this proposal aim to ensure legal certainty for those concerned, as well as appropriate coordination at EU level between national social security systems. It also reflects the legislative changes that have occurred at national level, and had to be approved because it takes into account recent developments in cross-border mobility affecting the coordination of social security systems.