1. Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 shall be repealed from the date of application of this Regulation.
However, Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 shall remain in force and shall continue to have legal effect for the purposes of:
(a)
Council Regulation (EC) No 859/2003 of 14 May 2003 extending the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 and Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 to nationals of third countries who are not already covered by those provisions solely on the ground of their nationality ( 2 ), for as long as that Regulation has not been repealed or modified;
(b)
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1661/85 of 13 June 1985 laying down the technical adaptations to the Community rules on social security for migrant workers with regard to Greenland ( 3 ), for as long as that Regulation has not been repealed or modified;
(c)
the Agreement on the European Economic Area ( 4 ) and the Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other part, on the free movement of persons ( 5 ) and other agreements which contain a reference to Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71, for as long as those agreements have not been modified in the light of this Regulation.
2 References to Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 in Council Directive 98/49/EC of 29 June 1998 on safeguarding the supplementary pension rights of employed and self-employed persons moving within the Community ( 6 ) are to be read as referring to this Regulation.