Decision No S8 of 15 June 2011 concerning the granting of prostheses, major appliances and other substantial benefits in kind provided for in Article 33 of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems Text of relevance to the EEA and to the EC/Switzerland Agreement

The prostheses, major appliances, and other substantial benefits in kind that are referred to in Article 33(1) of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 shall constitute benefits which: are tailored to specific personal needs, and are in the course of being provided, or have been granted but yet not provided, and are defined or/and treated as such by the Member State under whose legislation the insured person was insured before he/she became insured under the legislation of another Member State. A non-exhaustive list indicating the benefits, which when fulfilling the criteria determined above shall be treated as such, is contained in the Annex to this Decision.

This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from the date of its publication.