In addition, the Single Permit Directive will, once adopted, secure the right for all migrant workers covered by it to export their acquired pensions under the same conditions and at the same rates as the nationals of the Member States concerned when they move to a non-EU country.

2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, if, when awarding or reviewing benefits in respect of invalidity benefits, old-age and survivors’ pensions pursuant to Chapter 4 and 5 of Title III of the basic Regulation, the institution of a Member State has paid to a person benefits of undue sum, that institution may request the institution of any other Member State responsible for the payment of corresponding benefits to the person concerned to deduct the amount overpaid from the arrears payable to the person concerned.

24. Calls on the governments of developing countries, and agriculture-exporting LDCs in particular, to counter the increasing population pressure on land and environmental impoverishment, where farm sizes and yields are too low to support households, through the development of employment-intensive nonagricultural tradables and technological change in subsistence-oriented activities; notes that this could be combined with countering the problem of "enclave growth" through the development of trade-related infrastructure, such as internal transport and communications, increased domestic market integration and the development of new exports ...[+++], including manufactured goods and tourism;

3.2.7 The Member States were asked whether they believed that there was a case for moving some projects from Annex II to Annex I. Some Member States have already done this by placing some projects in their own version of Annex I or by having mandatory thresholds for certain Annex II projects. However, the largest single proportion of respondents felt that there is no case for moving projects from Annex II to Annex I (i.e. Austria, ...[+++] Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, UK). There was some consensus on the view that it was far too early to judge whether the Annex I and II lists needed further revision and that there needs to be far more research on the relationship between the Annexes and how the system operates in practice across the EU as a whole.

It is a pity that her more progressive ideas narrowly missed endorsement in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs and we now have before us a more begrudging approach to long-term residents from third countries, with an overemphasis on terrorism, language acquisition and sufficient resources, especially in the area of pensions.

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