1.
Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 is repealed with effect from 1 May 2010.
However, Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 shall remain in force and 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covered by those provisions solely on the grounds of their nationality ( 2 ), until such time as that Regulation is repealed or amended;
(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rules on social security for migrant workers with regard to Greenland ( 3 ), until such time as that Regulation is repealed or amended;
(c)
the Agreement on the European Economic Area ( 4 ), the Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the free movement of persons ( 5 ) and other agreements containing a reference to Regulation (EEC) No 574/72, until such time as those agreements are amended on the basis of the implementing Regulation.
2. 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 ), and more generally in all other Community acts, the references to Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 shall be understood as referring to the implementing Regulation.