Accident insurance: electronic exchange with EU (EESSI)

Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information across the EU

Legal foundations for EESSI

The new Regulations (EC) No. 883/2004 and (EC) No. 987/2009 on the coordination of social security systems came into effect in the EU on 1 May 2010. Switzerland has been applying these Regulations under Annex II to the Agreement on the free movement of persons since 1 April 2012, and in its relations with the other EFTA member states since 1 January 2016.

Under these Regulations, paper-based communication is to be replaced by electronic exchanges among social security institutions – the Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI). This new method of communication offers a major opportunity to modernise data exchange, but it requires certain fundamental changes in information processing.

Further information

• Links

  Federal Social Insurance Office, Switzerland, SNAP-EESSI (in German)

• Legislation

  0.831.109.268.1 Verordnung (EG) Nr. 883/2004 des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates vom 29. April 2004 zur Koordinierung der Systeme der sozialen Sicherheit

  0.831.109.268.11 Verordnung (EG) Nr. 987/2009 des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates vom 16. September 2009 zur Festlegung der Modalitäten für die Durchführung der Verordnung (EG) Nr. 883/2004 über die Koordinierung der Systeme der sozialen Sicherheit

  - Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (AFMP ; RS 0.142.112.681)