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121 Int'l Lab. Rev. 259 (1982)
The Nordic Social Security Convention

handle is hein.journals/intlr121 and id is 275 raw text is: International Labour Review, Vol. 121, No. 3, May-June 1982

The Nordic Social Security
Convention
Adam TRIER*
The Nordic Social Security Convention' between the five Nordic
countries-Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden-dates back to
1955. It replaced 12 different multilateral and bilateral Conventions covering
the individual branches of social security, thus codifying and extending the
provisions on co-ordination of the social security legislation of the Nordic
countries.
The Convention, which is a result of the close political and economic co-
operation between the five countries, was a necessary adjunct to the
Convention of 1954 establishing the Common Nordic Labour Market. By the
late 1970s, however, it had undergone frequent amendment, mainly as a
consequence of changes in national legislation. A radical overhaul of the text
had therefore become necessary, partly because the many amendments had
made it obscure, and partly because it lagged behind general international
practice in various respects.
The revision of the Convention was treated as a common Nordic matter
by the Nordic Council of Ministers, which consists of the Governments of the
five Nordic countries, and by the Nordic Council, an advisory body consisting
of members of parliament from the five countries.
The Convention thus underwent thorough revision by a committee of
experts, which in 1979 submitted a report2 containing a draft of a new Nordic
Social Security Convention. The Governments of the countries passed on tle
draft to a great number of national authorities and organisations for
comment. After making some amendments, the Nordic Council of Ministers
(on this occasion including the Ministers of Health and Social Affairs of the
Nordic countries) agreed to submit the draft to the Nordic Council. Upon the
recommendation of the Council the Convention was subsequently signed by
the Ministers of Social Affairs of the countries concerned on 5 March 1981
and entered into force on 1 January 1982.
* Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Social Affairs, Denmark.

Copyright © International Labour Organisation 1982

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