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Background information

Changes within the statutory accident insurance system
The act for modernization of the accident insurance system (UVMG): the legislative instrument for reform of the statutory accident insurance system not only has a long name, but also substantial content. The most important changes at a glance.
Is the BGs' monopoly really hanging in the balance?
20 August 2007: Is the BGs' monopoly compatible with EU law? A number of trade associations have set themselves the objective of overturning the monopoly in Germany held by the BGs, the German institutions for statutory accident insurance and prevention, in order to bring about privatization of the accident insurance system in the industrial sector.
 

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