Monitoring

Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI)

The Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI) DSI is a central platform to which national social security institutions connect to exchange information between each other. The exchanged information covers all 8 branches of social security coordination, which are sickness benefits, accidents at work and occupational disease benefits, family benefits, old-age pensions, pre-retirement and invalidity benefits, unemployment benefits. The institutions use the system to route structured electronic documents to their counterparties following agreed business processes (also known as “Business Use Cases”).

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EESSI DSI adds value to the EU by improving the cross-border communication between the national social security institutions of 32 countries (EU Member States, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland), by supporting an efficient transition to electronic exchange of data in order to reduce the period of co-existence of digital exchange with current paper procedures, and by increasing overall efficiency in social security coordination activity.

The Core Service Platform consists in a messaging and information transmission platform composed by a Central Service Node maintained by the European Commission, access points and the Reference Implementation of a National Application (RINA). The Central Service Node is the hub hosting the Directory service of all EESSI social security institutions, orchestrating the exchanges and providing the repository of the BUCs for all 8 domains of social security coordination. The access points offer the basis of reliable and secure transport and messaging between EU and EEA countries associated to the programme as well as the intelligent routing feature (allowing the messages to reach the right destination). RINA is a case management portal reference implementation offering multiple services such as management of social security coordination cases, enforcing the specific sectorial business processes in an effort to avoid delays, errors and lack of information in processing of social security coordination cases.

Also, training material and training activities (IT training and business training for trainers) for EU and EEA countries associated to the programme are prepared in the context of the Core Service Platform.

The deployment of Generic Services in EU and EEA countries associated to the programme consists in the acquisition of software and hardware for the integration of EESSI components (e.g. access points and national applications) in their national IT systems. Depending on the national setting, Generic Services can cover the whole country or only certain branches of social security.

The EESSI is supporting the Member States to become compliant with Regulations (EC) No. 883/2004 and 987/2009 for the coordination of social security systems, which establish the obligation for the participating countries to exchange social security coordination data electronically after a transition phase.

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