Order — ECLI:EU:C:2015:277
Date: 2015-04-22
Language of the case: Romanian
Court formation: Ninth Chamber
Subject matter: Social security for migrant workers
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Romania

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Suceava (România) lodged on 16 December 2013 – Casa Judeţeană de Pensii Botoşani v Evangeli Paraskevopoulou (Case C-668/13) Language of the case: Romanian Referring court Curtea de Apel Suceava Parties to the main proceedings Applicant: Casa Judeţeană de Pensii Botoşani Defendant: Evangeli Paraskevopoulou Question referred Is Article 7(2)(c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 1 to be interpreted as including within its scope a bilateral agreement which two Member States entered into before the date on which that regulation became applicable and by which the two states agreed to the termination of obligations relating to social security benefits owed by one State to nationals of the other State who had been political refugees in the territory of the first State and who have been repatriated to the territory of the second State, in exchange for a payment by the first State of a lump sum for the payment of pensions and to cover periods during which social security contributions were paid in the first Member State? ____________ 1 Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of the Council of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons and their families moving within the Community (OJ, English Special Edition 1971 (II), p. 416).