20. 6. 85 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 160/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1660/85 of 13 June 1985 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community and Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Eur0pean Economic Community, and in particular Articles 51 and 235 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, drawn up after consulting the Administrative Commis- sion on Social Security for Migrant Workers (*), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (?), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Whereas certain amendments should be made to Regulations (EEC) No 1408/71 (¥ and (EEC) No 574/72 (), each of which was last amended by Regula- tion (EEC) No 2001/83 (%); whereas some of these amendments result from changes which have occurred in Member States’ social security legislation, other amendments being of a technical nature and prompted by the experience gained from their imple- mentation ; Whereas changes in the Danish legislation concerning social pensions make it necessary to amend existing entries in Annex VI to Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 ; (*) OJ No C 47, 19. 2. 1985, p. 8. (® OJ No C 141, 10. 6. 1985. (*) Opinion delivered on 27 May 1985 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (9 OJ No L 149, 5. 7. 1971, p. 2. () OJ No L 74, 27. 3. 1972, p. 1. (9 OJ No L 230, 22. 8. 1983, p. 6. Whereas it is necessary to make provision in the said Annex VI for the waiving of the condition of residence in Denmark for the acquisition of the right to pension in respect of employed or self-employed persons or their survivors residing in a Member State other than Denmark and for ensuring the taking into account, under certain conditions, of periods of employment or self-employment completed in Denmark by an employed or self-employed person for the purposes of calculating the surviving spouse’s pension ; Whereas it is necessary to make provision in the said Annex VI enabling German institutions to reimburse contributions in respect of pension insurance paid by Greek teachers insured simultaneously in Germany and Greece; Whereas new legislation in Greece concerning volun- tary insurance schemes requires provision to be made in the said Annex VI incorporating the special proce- dure for applying this legislation and its conditions of eligibility to nationals of Member States other than Greece ; . Whereas provisions in the said Annex VI concerning United Kingdom legislation, which permits wives or former wives to substitute periods of insurance completed by their husbands or former husbands in two or more Member States for their own insurance record where this is more favourable, require amend- ment to take account of the extension of this conces- sion in certain cases to former husbands in respect of the insurance periods of their former wives, and to - correct certain inadequacies in the wording of the existing text; Whereas the interaction between United Kingdom legislation concerning the calculation of old-age pensions and the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 concerning the aggregation of periods of