Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2006:106
Date: 2006-02-16
Language of the case: Swedish
Court formation: Second Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Free movement of workers
Concepts: Equal treatment
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Sweden

Summary of the Judgment Freedom of movement for persons – Workers – Equal treatment (EC Treaty, Art. 48 (now, after amendment, Art. 39 EC)) Article 48 of the Treaty (now, after amendment, Article 39 EC) is to be interpreted as meaning that, where national legislation concerning the allocation of parental benefits applies, which requires a worker to have been affiliated to a sickness insurance scheme for a certain minimum period for the calculation of the amount of those benefits, the period during which a worker was affiliated to the Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme of the European Communities must be taken into account. (see para. 28, operative part)