Betænkningen vil bidrage til en forenkling af reglerne for sociale sikringsordninger over hele EU.
The simplification that is so urgently needed could, with the Commission ’ s help, be accomplished either directly, by means of bilateral agreements, or by a derogation completely removing such traditional seasonal work as helping with the harvest from the scope of Regulation 1408/ 71 or its successor, Regulation 883/ 2004/ EC, and that of the implementing regulation that is yet to be adopted.