Article 5
Annex SSC-6 to the Protocol is amended as follows: (1) In the section entitled ‘GERMANY’, the following paragraph is added: ‘9. In the cases referred to in Article SSC.39, for the determination of the amount of invalidity benefits under the German legislation, the provisions of Chapter 5 of the Protocol shall apply mutatis mutandis .’ ; (2) The following section is inserted after the section entitled ‘IRELAND’: ‘LUXEMBOURG In the cases referred to in Article SSC.39, for the determination of the amount of invalidity benefits under the Luxembourg legislation, the provisions of Chapter 5 of the Protocol shall apply mutatis mutandis .’ ; (3) The section entitled ‘MALTA’ is replaced by the following: ‘MALTA 1. Special provisions for civil servants (a) Solely for the purposes of the application of Articles SSC.43 and SSC.55 of this Protocol, persons employed under the Malta Armed Forces Act (Chapter 220 of the Laws of Malta), the Police Act (Chapter 164 of the Laws of Malta), the Prisons Act (Chapter 260 of the Laws of Malta) and the Civil Protection Act (Chapter 411 of the Laws of Malta) shall be treated as civil servants. (b) Pensions payable under the above Acts and under the Pensions Ordinance (Chapter 93 of the Laws of Malta) shall, solely for the purposes of point (cc) of Article SSC.1 of this Protocol, be considered as “special schemes for civil servants”. 2. In the cases referred to in Article SSC.39, for the determination of the amount of invalidity benefits under the Social Security Act (Chapter 318 of the Laws of Malta), the provisions of Chapter 5 of the Protocol shall apply mutatis mutandis .’ ; (4) The following section is inserted after the section entitled ‘NETHERLANDS’: ‘SLOVENIA In the cases referred to in Article SSC.39, for the determination of the amount of invalidity benefits under the Slovenian legislation, the provisions of Chapter 5 of the Protocol shall apply mutatis mutandis .’ ; (5) In the section entitled ‘SPAIN’ the following paragraph is added: ‘5. In the cases referred to in Article SSC.39, for the determination of the amount of invalidity benefits according to the General Social Security Act (Legislative Royal Decree 8/2015) and the consolidated text of the Civil Service Pensions Act (Ley de Clases Pasivas) (Legislative Royal Decree 670/1987), the provisions of Chapter 5 of the Protocol shall apply mutatis mutandis .’.