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Germany’s aba calls for ‘fundamental revision’ of EC’s pension package


By Natalie Tuck

Germany’s Arbeitsgemeinschaft für betriebliche Altersversorgung (aba) has called for a “fundamental revision” of the European Commission’s (EC) proposed supplementary pension package, as it branded the reforms unsuitable for occupational pensions.

In its position paper on the review of the IORP II Directive, the association listed several areas of concern with the current proposal that could harm “well-established structures of occupational pensions in Germany and other member states”


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