The 2022 MISSCEO comparative tables on social protection systems are available in the database which has been updated with the 2022 data currently available. The tables resume the situation concerning the legislation of social protection on 1 January 2022 in the MISSCEO states: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine.

The pdf version of the 2022 data appears below.

  1. Financing
  2. Health care
  3. Sickness - Cash benefits
  4. Maternity/Paternity
  5. Invalidity
  6. Old-age
  7. Survivors
  8. Employment injuries and occupational diseases
  9. Family benefits
  10. Unemployment
  11. Guaranteeing sufficient resources
  12. Long-term care

Social protection of self-employed per country

The approach adopted by MISSCEO, as regards the coverage of self-employed persons, is to include references to self-employed persons and civil servants in the Comparative Tables if they are included under a general scheme for the economically active population. This means schemes that are based on the performance of economic activity and not on any distinction between employees and self-employed persons. Schemes based on economic activity can be identified when the benefits received by self-employed persons and employees are the same. There may be differences between the rates of financial contributions made by these parties or the conditions applied.

Separate schemes for self-employed persons, where the amount of benefit paid differ from that of employees are not included in the MISSCEO comparative tables. In view of the varying structures of the protection systems, a representation in the form of "Comparative Tables" characteristically utilised by MISSCEO quickly came up against certain limits: Table XIII would become far and away the most extensive of all tables, which had less to do with the wealth of information than with the layout of the table itself. Instead, MISSCEO has produced the short description of the social protection of the self-employed in this annex to the tables.

Albania Montenegro
Armenia Serbia
Azerbaijan  North Macedonia
Bosnia and Herzegovina Türkiye
Georgia Ukraine
Republic of Moldova  

Information on coordination instruments per country

The member states of MISSCEO also provide information on coordination instruments with regard to their respective countries, which is updated on a periodic basis.

 Albania, (appendix)
 Armenia
 Azerbaijan
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Georgia
 Republic of Moldova
 Montenegro
 Serbia
 North Macedonia
 Türkiye
 Ukraine
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European Committee of Social Rights statement on the right to protection of health in times of pandemic crisis

In a statement of interpretation issued today on the right to protection of health (Article 11 of the European Social Charter) in times of pandemic, the European Committee of Social Rights endorses many measures adopted by states in response to COVID-19: “testing and tracing, physical distancing and self-isolation, the provision of adequate masks and disinfectant, as well as the imposition of quarantine and ‘lockdown’ arrangements. All such measures must be designed and implemented having regard to the current state of scientific knowledge and in accordance with relevant human rights standards.” The Committee recalls the need for adequate public health provision and resourcing, including for research, vaccine development and prevention. It also points to a range of other social human rights affected by the pandemic, including the right to health and safety at work or the rights of children and older persons, to which authorities must pay attention.

“In times of pandemic, the protection of the right to health for all must be the primary aim of State policies and measures, because pandemics - and state responses thereto – can also pose significant risks to many other social rights. The European Committee of Social Rights will offer further guidance to states on social rights exigencies in the response to COVID-19. The Committee will scrutinise closely action taken by states in response to the pandemic in terms of their social rights obligations. The questionnaire to states parties to the European Social Charter is already being prepared with this in mind,” declared the Committee’s President Giuseppe Palmisano.

Strasbourg, France 22/04/2020
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