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- At the request of the competent institution, verification of administrative and medical information regarding claimants or recipients of Israeli benefits living in the Netherlands will be carried out by Gak Nederland bv.
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- At the request of the competent institution, verification of administrative and medical information about claimants or recipients of Netherlands' benefits living in Israel will be carried out by the National Insurance Institute.
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- In order to determine the degree of disability for work, the institutions of both Contracting Parties shall use the medical reports and the administrative data provided by the institutions of the other Party, but they nevertheless reserve the right to have the claimant or beneficiary examined by a doctor of their own choice or to summon the person involved to undergo a medical examination in the territory of the competent State.
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- The person involved is obliged to comply with a request as meant in the third section by presenting himself for medical examination. If he feels that, for medical reasons, he is unfit to travel to the territory of the State where he has been summoned by the competent institution, he must inform that institution immediately. He will then be obliged to submit a medical statement issued by a doctor designated for this purpose by the competent institution. This statement must include the medical reasons for his unfitness for travelling as well as the expected duration of this unfitness.
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- The costs of the examination and, in cases where the examination is held in the territory of the competent State, the expenses for travel and accommodation, will be paid for by the institution at whose request the examination is carried out.
