It is a legal requirement that all business travellers must have an approved A1 Application on all business travels. The A1 certificate is an approval from the authorities that the employee has the right to remain under social security while being at work in another EU country.

The A1 application is needed for travels in all European countries and is required to be accurate and up to date. 

The application can be done either by the company or by the employee. Compliance tracking can be a complicated task, and not easliy managed by the employees on the go. In Sweden and Denmark, the process time takes from 20 min to 60 min per application once the employee has been trained on the process.

All employees travelling are required to bring the A1 application for business related travels. Employees not in control of. or handling, the A1 application process pose a risk for the company including heavy fines and possible non compliant status for the company. For example, in Denmark employees can also risk the right to unemployment benefits if they travel for their employer without an A1 certificate, and thus cannot prove social security coverage in Denmark for 12 months.

Although the A1 application form has the same name all over Europe, the different European countries have different needs for data and different processes for filing the A1 application.

The Relocare Compliance App  provides a valuable advantage for both employee and the company by the automaticly filling of the A1 application is reducing time on the process and guaranteeing accuracy.