Indietro Report by the CEACR of the ILO on social security measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Social security measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Report by the CEACR of the ILO on social security measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) issued a report concerning social security measures taken at national level in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The CEACR noted the information provided by the Governments of the Contracting Parties to the European Code of Social Security in their reports for the period 1 July 2019 – 30 June 2020 concerning the social security measures adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and thanked the governments concerned for responding to this invitation of the Council of Europe.

Geneva, Switzerland 12/2020
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Social security systems are one of the most powerful institutional expressions of social solidarity and an important means by which to ensure an adequate standard of living for the people of Europe.


Since it was founded in 1949, the Council of Europe, whose aim is "to achieve a greater unity between its members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress", has played a major role in establishing social security minimum standards in Europe, developing social security coordination between its member states, and monitoring developments in the field of social security in Europe.
 

Establishing social security standards

Council of Europe standard-setting instruments require states to alter the substance of their social security systems. They may have to change the amount of benefit or length of the qualifying period.

The European Code of Social Security and its Protocol, as well as the Revised European Code of Social Security, set standards in the social security field on the basis of minimum harmonisation of the level of social security, providing minimum standards and permitting (or rather encouraging) the contracting parties to exceed these standards.

These standard-setting instruments, together with the European Social Charter, set out the underlying principles of what is referred to as the European social security model.

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