Mutual Information System on Social Protection of the Council of Europe (MISSCEO)
The Mutual Information System on Social Protection of the
Council of Europe (MISSCEO) started its work in 1999 and aims to promote
regular exchange of information on social protection in the member states of
the Council of Europe that are not members of the European Union (EU), the
European Economic Area (EEA) and EFTA and in three non European states.
MISSCEO is based on the close co-operation between a network of national
correspondents and the Department of Social Policy of the Council of Europe. MISSCEO now counts a total of
16 states: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,
Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, the Russian Federation, Serbia, “the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia”, Turkey and Ukraine as well as Australia, Canada and
New Zealand.
MISSCEO produces regularly updated comparatives tables on social protection
systems under the form of database and in pdf format. It has also started to
identify recent trends and developments in social protection across the MISSCEO countries (MISSCEO Info).
The comparative tables summarise the social
protection legislation using a set of standardised descriptors. They form an
essential complement to the comparative tables of the MISSOC, Mutual
Information System on Social Protection in the member states of the EU, the
EEA and in Switzerland.
The MISSCEO
network meets once per year to ensure the quality of the contributions to the
tables and to exchange information between the states covered by the tables.
FOCUS
The 13th MISSCEO network meeting took place in Paris, on 30 June -
1 July 2011.