In particular, the French authorities asked the Commission to extend the scope of the Council Decision so as to apply also to the “cotisation sur les boissons alcooliques” (also known as the “Vignette Sécurité Sociale (VSS)), a contribution levied for the National Sickness Insurance Fund on alcoholic beverages to counter the health risks involved in immoderate use of this product, and to amend Council Decision 2007/695/EC retroactively, i.e. as of 1 January 2012 by extending it to cover the VSS so that a lower rate can be applied to ‘traditional’ rum produced in the four French outermost regions listed in Council Dec ...[+++]ision 2007/659/EC.

Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Maladie des Travailleurs Salariés (CNAMS)

Caisse Nationale d’Assurance-Vieillesse des Travailleurs Salariés (CNAVTS)

Recently, for example, there was a case in Bulgaria in which unauthorised retrieval of data, personal data, from the National Health Insurance Fund was attempted, and this attempt was frustrated only by the prompt action taken by the management of the Fund.

6. While fully respecting the Council conclusions on universality, solidarity and equity as fundamental values underpinning European health-care systems and the limited provisions of Article 152 of the EC Treaty, emphasises that the rulings of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) address the problems relating to patients’ rights to seek treatment abroad and subsequently get reimbursed by their national health insurance scheme in certain circumstances;

A few days later she was called back and signposted to the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie and the CSSTM in Paris, the compenent authorities who were able to assess her position precisely.