40. Stresses that an efficient implementation of the free movement of workers calls for coordinated action by the European and national authorities to facilitate and simplify administrative procedures on issues indirectly linked to this right, such as the transfer of vehicle registrations and the guarantee of accessibility of medical records, provision of a comprehensive database on current healthcare practitioner performance competence, avoidance of double taxation, clear ...[+++] rules on the reimbursement of medical expenses, etc.;

the cover granted will not have to include the contributions to medical costs which the insured person may incur either on account of fees exceeding the rate for certain treatments or certain consultations, or on account of the lack of designation of a treating doctor.

28. Welcomes, in this context, the Commission’s intention to propose legislative and non‑legislative instruments in the area of nuclear insurance and liability; recalls that nuclear civil liability is already subject to international conventions (Paris and Vienna); believes, however, that nuclear operators and waste licensees should have full financial security provisions in place to enable them to fully cover all costs for which they are liable in respect of damage caused to people and the environment in the event of an accident; calls on the Commission, in this connection, to come forward with proposals on the matter by the end of 2 ...[+++]013;

If Member States with ex post systems were now to be asked to carry out a complete restructuring of their deposit-guarantee schemes at great expense, it would be necessary to analyse whether the diversity of the schemes and the accompanying unacceptable and expensive market distortions are at all justifiable in the internal market.

I shall point out a few: a faster increase in guaranteed income supplement benefits for low-income seniors; establishment of anew national seniors’ secretariat; a doubling of the amount caregivers can claim for medical and disability-related expenses; $5 billion for the early learning and child care initiative; justice initiatives that will make our communities safer; significant investments in the environment; an additional $850 million in health; $735 million for aboriginal families; the basic personal exemption ...[+++]raised to $10,000 removing more than 860,000 taxpayers from the tax rolls, including 240,000 seniors, most of whom are women.

Those promises were the establishment of a senior secretariat, increased guaranteed income supplement payments by up to $433 a year for single seniors and up to $700 for elderly couples plus quarterly adjustments, extend the amount for medical and disability-related expenses a family caregiver can claim on income tax by up to $10,000, and investment of over $1 billion over the next five years to help family caregivers of seniors and the disabled.