Austria

1. Sickness

Gebietskrankenkasse (Regional fund for sickness insurance) which is locally competent for the place of residence or temporary residence of the beneficiary.

2. Occupational injuries and diseases

a) Gebietskrankenkasse (Regional fund for sickness insurance) which is locally competent for the place of residence or temporary residence providing that it is a question of the granting of benefits in kind or in cash (apart from pensions and death grants);

b) Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt (The general office for accidents insurance) at Vienna with respect to the payment of cash benefits (apart from cash benefits within the meaning of sub-paragraph (a) and provided that Article 68 of this Agreement is being applied.

3. Unemployment

Regionale Geschäftsstelle des Arbeitsmarktservice (Local Office and Labour market Service) which is competent for the place of resident or temporary residence of the benificiary.

4. Family benefits

Finanzamt (Finance Office) which is competent for the place of residence or temporary residence of the beneficiary.

Belgium

I. In respect to the institutions of the place of residence.

1. Sickness – maternity

a) For the application of Articles 17, 19, 22, 25, 27 and 28 of this Agreement: the insuring bodies;

b) Application of Article 29 of this Agreement:

(i) as a general rule: the insuring bodies;

(ii) for seamen: Caisse de secours et de prévoyance en faveur des marins (Welfare Fund for Seamen), Antwerp, or the insuring bodies.

2. Invalidity

a) General invalidity (wage-earners, salaried employees, self-employed workers and miners in so far as the latter have no rights under the special scheme): Institut national d'assurance maladie-invalidité (National Sickness and Invalidity Insurance Institution), Brussels, together with the insuring bodies.

b) Special mine-workers' invalidity: Fonds national de retraite des ouvriers-mineurs (National Pension Fund for Mine-workers), Brussels.

c) Seamen's invalidity: Caisse de secours et de prévoyance en faveur des marins (Welfare Fund for Seamen), Antwerp.

3. Old age–death (pensions)

a) Wage-earners: Office national des pensions (National Pension Board), Brussels;

b) self-employed workers: Institut national d'assurances sociales pour travailleurs indépendants (National Social Insurance Institute for Self-employed Workers), Brussels.

4. Occupational injuries: the insuring bodies.

5. Occupational diseases: Fonds des maladies professionnelles (Occupational Diseases Fund), Brussels.

6. Unemployment

a) as a general rule: Office national de l'emploi (National Employment Board), Brussels;

b) for seamen: Pool des marins de la marine marchande (Merchant Navy Seamen's Pool), Antwerp.

7. Family benefits

a) wage-earners: Office national d'allocations familiales pour travailleurs salariés (National Office for Family Allowances for Wage-earners), Brussels;

b) self-employed workers: Institut national d'assurances sociales pour travailleurs indépendants (National Social Insurance Institute for self-employed workers), Brussels.

8. Death grants

The insuring bodies together with Institut national d'assurance maladie-invalidité (National Sickness and Invalidity Insurance Institution).

II. For the institutions of the place of temporary residence

1. Sickness–maternity

Institut national d'assurance maladie-invalidité (National Sickness and Invalidity Insurance Institution), Brussels, through the insuring bodies.

2. Occupational injuries

Institut national d'assurance maladie-invalidité (National Sickness and Invalidity Insurance Institution), Brussels, through the insuring bodies.

3. Occupational diseases

Fonds des maladies professionnelles (Occupational Diseases Fund), Brussels.

Cyprus

Department of Social Insurance of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance.

Denmark

1. Sickness

Den stedlige anerkendte sygekasse (the local public sickness fund).

2. Maternity

a) benefits in kind: Den stedlige anerkendte sygekasse (the local sickness fund);

b) cash benefits: Kommunen (the local district council, or, where the administration of such benefits has been assigned to it by that authority, Den stedlige anerkendte sygekasse (the local public sickness fund).

3. Invalidity, old-age and death pensions

Kommunen (the local district council).

4. Labour market supplementary pension

Arbejdsmarkedets Tillaegspension (Labour Market Supplementary Pension Board), Hillerød.

5. Occupational injuries and diseases

Direktoratet for ulykkesforsikringen (Directorate of Occupational Injuries Insurance), Copenhagen.

6. Death

Den stedlige anerkendte sygekasse (the local public sickness fund).

7. Unemployment

Arbejdsdirektoratet (Directorate of Labour), Copenhagen.

8. Family benefits

Kommunen (the local district counsil).

France

I. Metropolitan area

1. General scheme

a) Insurance benefits for sickness, maternity, death (lump sum payment), occupational injuries and diseases (temporary incapacity): Caisse primaire d'assurance maladie (Sickness Insurance Primary Fund).

b) Invalidity pensions: Caisse primaire d'assurance maladie (Sickness Insurance Primary Fund), except in the case of residence or temporary residence:

(i) in the Paris area: Caisse régionale d'assurance maladie de Paris (Paris Regional Sickness Insurance Fund)

(ii) in the Strasbourg area: Caisse régionale d'assurance maladie de Strasbourg (Strasbourg Regional Sickness Insurance Fund).

c) Old-age insurance benefits: the paying office, either: the Regional Sickness Insurance Fund (old-age section); the Strasbourg Regional Old-Age Insurance Fund; or the National Old-Age Insurance Fund for wage-earners, Paris.

d) Occupational injuries or diseases (permanent incapacity)

(i) Pension or increase of pension for risks subsequent to 1 January 1947: Caisse primaire d'assurance maladie (Sickness Insurance Primary Fund)

(ii) Pension for risks prior to 1 January 1947: the employer or the subrogated insurance body

(iii) Increase of pensions for risks prior to 1 January 1947: Caisse des dépôts et consignations (Deposit and Consignment Office).

e) Unemployment: Direction départementale du travail et de la main-d'oeuvre (Departmental Directorate of Labour and Manpower).

f) Family benefits: Caisse d'allocations familiales (Family Allowances Fund).

2. Agricultural Scheme

a) Insurance benefits for sickness, maternity, death (lump sum payment), invalidity, family benefits: Caisse départementale de mutualité sociale agricole (Departmental Agricultural Mutual Assistance Fund).

b) Old-age insurance benefits: Caisse centrale de secours mutuels agricoles (Central Mutual Agricultural Assistance Fund).

c) Pensions for occupational injuries or diseases: the employer or the subrogated insurance body.

d) Unemployment: Direction départementale du travail et de la main-d'oeuvre (Departmental Directorate of Labour and Manpower).

3. Mining scheme

a) Benefits in case of sickness, maternity, death (grant), temporary incapacity following an occupational injury or disease: Société de secours minière (Mine-workers' Welfare Society).

b) Benefits for invalidity, old age: Caisse autonome nationale de sécurité sociale dans les mines (Independent National Social Security Fund for Mines), Paris.

c) Occupational injuries or diseases:

(i) For risks subsequent to 1 Januari 1947

– pensions

– increase of pension – Union régionale des sociétés de secours minières (Regional Union of Mine-workers' Welfare Societies)

(ii) Risks prior to 1 Januari 1947:

– pensions: the employer or the subrogated insurance body

– increase of pensions: La Caisse des dépôts et consignations (Deposit and Consignment Office).

d) Unemployment: Direction départementale du travail et de la main-d'oeuvre (Departmental Directorate of Labour and Manpower).

4. Seamen's scheme

a) sickness, maternity, industrial injury, survivor's pension for an invalid or victim of an industrial injury, death (grant):

– the section «Caisse générale de prévoyance des marins» (Seamen's General Welfare Fund) of the maritime affairs quarter.