The European Association of Paritarian Institutions (AEIP), founded in 1996, is a Brussels-based advocacy organization representing the Social Protection Institutions established and managed by employers and trade unions on a jointly basis within the framework of the collective agreements.

All AEIP members are non-for-profit and cover a number of social protection benefits:

• Coordinated retirement schemes
• Occupational pension funds
• Complementary healthcare insurance
• Long-term care
• Health & Safety at work
• Paid holidays
• Unemployment benefits

AEIP promotes social security and protection at the European level. It monitors, influences and sometimes opposes the European law making process on the interests of its members and according to its positions. The Association works in close cooperation with the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Economic and Social Committee.