CELEX: 62010CJ0141
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Articles 39 EC to 42 EC
Freedom of movement of persons
Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71
Social security of migrant workers
Refusal to pay certain benefits
Workers employed on drilling platforms in the Netherlands
Admissibility of the action

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Articles 3(1) and 13(2)(a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to
members of their families moving within the Community (OJ 1971 L 149, p. 2) and of Articles 45 TFEU to 48 TFEU — Refusal to
pay certain benefits to workers living in the Member States of the European Union who are employed on drilling platforms in
the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Dismisses the action as inadmissible;
2.
Orders the European Commission to pay the costs;
3.
Orders the Portuguese Republic to bear its own costs.