The right to a disability pension is acquired by persons insured obligatorily or voluntarily in the following cases

order obligatorily medical treatment, if the person is alcohol abuser or abuses other psychotropic substances or suffers an illness

The right to disability insurance is acquired by an insured person who is obligatorily or voluntarily insured by pension or disability insurance and who

Persons resident in Entities or Brčko District who are incapable of independent living and work and who do not have funds for support are obligatorily insured, for health care to the extent defined for insured family members.

This implied that unions in decentralized public bodies were able to apply for registration to the STyPS and as a consequence to belong to the central trade union organization of their choice and not obligatorily to the Federation of Unions of State Workers (FSTSE).