2. Transfers of premium rights and temporary leasing of such rights shall be effective only after they have been notified jointly to the competent authorities of the Member State by the farmer transferring and/or leasing the rights and by the farmer receiving the rights.

Where a former official was in receipt of retirement pension the surviving spouse shall be entitled, provided that the couple were already married before the official left the service of an institution and that the marriage had lasted at least one year, and subject to the provisions of Article 22, to a survivor's pension equal to 60 % of the retirement pension which he was receiving at the time of his death.

(4) The Joint Report by the Commission and the Council on Adequate and Sustainable Pensions, having examined the various policies implemented by the Member States, underlined how balanced progress in addressing both social and financial concerns is the key to ensuring the political acceptability of pension reforms and invited Member States to maintain the impetus of the reform process and to implement credible and effective strategies; raising the effective retirement age and hence the employment rate for older workers represents a powerful tool for addr ...[+++]essing both concerns.

(1) The European Council, in accordance with the integrated socio-economic strategy defined in Lisbon in March 2000 and in response to the first Joint Report by the Commission and the Council on Adequate and Sustainable Pensions, stressed the need for maintaining the momentum for cooperation in this area through continued application of the open method of coordination and called for further reforms focusing in particular on increasing employment rates for older workers.

'3 (a) The provisions of Danish legislation on social pensions that stipulate that the right to pension is subject to the claimant being resident in Denmark are not applicable to employed or self-employed persons or their survivors who reside in the territory of a Member State other than Denmark (b) For the purpose of calculating the pension, periods of employment or self-employment completed in Denmark by a frontier worker or a seasonal worker are regarded as periods of residence completed in Denmark by the surviving spouse in so far as the surviving spouse was, during these periods, linked to the frontier worker or seasonal worker by m ...[+++]arriage without separation from bed and board or de facto separation on grounds of incompatibility, and provided that during these periods the spouse resided in the territory of another Member State.

The same entitlement shall apply to children who fulfil the foregoing conditions in the event of death or remarriage of a spouse who is entitled to a survivor's pension.