Book Review: EU Social Security Law. A Commentary on EU Regulations 883/2004 and 987/2009
| Author | Tomislav Sokol |
| Published date | 01 March 2016 |
| Date | 01 March 2016 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/138826271601800105 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
European Jour nal of Social Sec urity, Volume 18 (2016), No. 1 85
BOOK REVIEWS
Maximil ian Fuchs and Rob Cornelissen (eds.), EU Social Security Law. A
Commentary on EU Regulations 883/2004 and 987/2009, Baden-Baden: Nomos
Ver la gs g es el l sc h a , 2015, 554 pp., ISBN 978–3–8487–1714–9
Social secur ity coordination has been an area of crucial importance for European
integration since its very beginnings. Orig inally a tool for facilitating the free
movement of workers across the borders of the Member States, it has gradua lly evolved
to encompass categories of economically non-active persons as well, becoming an
important part of the everyday lives of Europeans living or working in di erent
Member States of the European Union. is development, together with variations
in the national socia l security systems of the Member States, has also resulted in an
increasing complexity of the relevant regulations, exacerbated by the case-law of the
European Court of Just ice. An important event happened when, in the wake of the
extension of the Union to new Member States, Regulation 883/2004 was adopted
and came into e ect along with t he Implementing Regulation 987/2009, replacing
Regulation 1408/71 and its Implementing Regulation 574/72. e need for a detailed
commentary soon beca me visible, especial ly in the context of the debate on severa l
important aspect s of coordination, including access to bene ts for workers and,
especially, non-active persons comi ng from other Member States. is book, written
by renowned scholars and practitioners from di erent institut ions, l ls this void.
e authors’ approach is based on providing explanatory commenta ries on each
provision of the above-mentioned regulations, systematica lly presenting the spirit and
purpose of these ru les. e case-law of the Court of Justice apply ing those provisions
and related rules of EU law (including, for exa mple, free provision of health care based
on the Treaty on the Functioning of t he European Union-TFEU) is also presented,
giving added va lue to the book itself.
e book is divided into th ree main parts, which a re further divided i nto a number
of sections and chapters, preceded by an introduction. e introduction provides a
de nition of the most important terms, such as Europe an social law in a broader and
narrower sense, followe d by a presentat ion of the develo pment of Europea n social law
and a short explanation of the lega l basis of coordination law, including its purpose,
scope and basic principles.
e rst of the three main parts analyses Articles45 and 48 TFEU dealing with
the free movement of workers, the latter providi ng the legal basis for the coordination
regulations that are the focus of the book. A er presenting an overview a nd the text
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