Recommendation 1992/441 - 92/441/EEC: Council Recommendation of 24 June 1992 on common criteria concerning sufficient resources and social assistance in social protection systems - Main contents

official title

Avis juridique important

|

92/441/EEC: Council Recommendation of 24 June 1992 on common criteria concerning sufficient resources and social assistance in social protection systems

Official Journal L 245 , 26/08/1992 P. 0046 - 0048

COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION of 24 June 1992 on common criteria concerning sufficient resources and social assistance insocial protection systems (92/441/EEC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 235 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3),

• (1) 

  Whereas reinforcing social cohesion within the Community requires the encouragement of solidarity with regard to the least privileged and most vulnerable people;

• (2) 

  Whereas respect for human dignity is one of the fundamental rights underlying Community law, as recognized in the preamble to the Single European Act;

• (3) 

  Whereas social exclusion processes and risks of poverty have become more prevalent and more diversified over the last 10 years, owing primarily to a combination of developments in the labour market with, in particular, growth in long-term unemployment, and in family structures with, in particular, an increase in social isolation;

• (4) 

  Whereas there is a need for general development policies capable of contributing towards halting the perceived structural trends to be accompanied by specific, systemic and coherent integration policies;

• (5) 

  Whereas, consequently, social policy efforts need to be continued, their achievements reinforced and these policies adapted to the multi-dimensional nature of social exclusion, which involves linking the various forms of immediate assistance needed to measures aiming expressly at the economic and social integration of the people concerned.

• (6) 

  Whereas people with insufficient, irregular and uncertain resources are unable to play an adequate part in the economic and social life of the society in which they live and to become successfully integrated economically and socially; whereas the right of the least privileged to sufficient, stable and reliable resources should therefore be recognized as part of a consistent, overall policy for supporting their integration;

• (7) 

  Whereas on 29 September 1989 the Council and the Ministers for Social Affairs meeting within the Council adopted a resolution on combating social exclusion (4) which stressed that combating social exclusion may be regarded as an important part of the social dimension of the internal market;

• (8) 

  Whereas the Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers, adopted at the European Council in Strasbourg on 9 December 1989 by the Heads of State or Government of 11 Member States, states, inter alia, in its eighth recital and in points 10 and 25:

'Whereas, (. . .) in a spirit of solidarity, it is important to combat social exclusion;'

'According to the arrangements applying in each country:

• 10. 

  Every worker of the European Community shall have a right to adequate social protection and shall, whatever his status and whatever the size of the undertaking in which he is employed, enjoy an adequate level of social security benefits.

Person who have been unable either to enter or re-enter the labour market and have no means of subsistence must be able to receive sufficient resources and social assistance in keeping with their particular situation.'

'25. Any person who has reached retirement age but who is not entitled to a pension or who does not have other means of subsistence, must be entitled to sufficient resources and to medical and social assistance specifically suited to his needs.';

• (9) 

  Whereas the Commission...

This text has been adopted from EUR-Lex.

This page is also available in a full version containing the summary of legislation, the legal context, de Europese rechtsgrond, other dossiers related to the dossier at hand and finally the related cases of the European Court of Justice.