All interventions of public and private authorities, which aim to protect households and individuals from specific risk and its consequences, providing there is no immediate reciprocal benefits or individual contracts.

• Regulation (EC) No 458/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 April 2007 on the European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS)
  Place of publication: (Dz. Urz. UE L 113 z 30.04.2007, str. 3)
• Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union
  Place of publication: (Dz. Urz. UE L 174 z 26.06.2013, str. 1, z późn. zm.)