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To receive an old-age pension, a person must have reached the standard retirement age and must have contributed to the public pension system for a certain minimum period. As of 1 January 2019, the standard retirement age for women is 61 years and will increase gradually to 63 years by January 2030. The standard retirement age for men is 65 years.
The European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) is a planned electronic authorisation system for visa-exempt visitors to travel to the Schengen Area and to other EU member states, [175] except Ireland, which remains in the Common Travel Area with the United Kingdom and other British Islands.
Tax-free shopping (TFS) is the buying of goods in another country or state and obtaining a refund of the sales tax which has been collected by the retailer on those goods. [1] The sales tax may be variously described as a sales tax , goods and services tax (GST), value added tax (VAT), or consumption tax .
New Zealand. The No. 2 safest country in the world behind Iceland is also an island nation without a home continent and is also one of only four non-European countries to make the list.
The Civil Code of Romania (Codul civil al României, commonly referred to as Noul Cod Civil – the New Civil Code, officially Law no. 287/2009 on the Civil Code) is the basic source of civil law in Romania. It was adopted by Parliament on 17 July 2009 and came into force on 1 October 2011.
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted.
The maximum retired pay of a vice-admiral with 29 years' service was £725; of rear-admirals with 27 years' service, £600 per annum. Pensions of captains who retire at the age of 55, commanders, who retire at 50, and lieutenants who retire at 45, ranged from £200 per annum for 17 years' service to £525 for 24 years' service.
The system worked even during World War II, as the King of Romania himself encouraged the concept of social welfare. [5] After the war ended and the Communist regime came to power, Romania became a socialist state, and therefore social welfare became widespread. [6] In 1990, after the fall of the communist regime, the whole system was reformed ...