Case C-347/12: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 8 May 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation — Luxembourg) — Caisse nationale des prestations familiales v Ulrike Wiering, Markus Wiering (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social security — Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 — Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 — Family benefits — Allowance for bringing up a family — ‘Elterngeld’  — ‘Kindergeld’  — Calculation of the supplementary allowance)
Date: 2014-05-08
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Germany, Luxembourg, equal treatment, family benefit, free movement of workers








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30.6.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 202/3





Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 8 May 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation — Luxembourg) — Caisse nationale des prestations familiales v Ulrike Wiering, Markus Wiering
(Case C-347/12) (1)

((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Social security - Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 - Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 - Family benefits - Allowance for bringing up a family - ‘Elterngeld’ - ‘Kindergeld’ - Calculation of the supplementary allowance))
2014/C 202/03
Language of the case: French

Referring court

Cour de cassation

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Caisse nationale des prestations familiales

Defendants: Ulrike Wiering, Markus Wiering

Re:

Request for a preliminary ruling — Cour de cassation du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg — Interpretation of Articles 1(u)(i), 4(1)(h) and 76 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, as amended (OJ, English Special Edition 1971(II), p. 416) — Interpretation of Article 10(1)(b)(i) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 of 21 March 1972 fixing the procedure for implementing Regulation No 1408/71 (OJ, English Special Edition 1972(I), p. 160) — Concept of ‘family benefit’ — Worker residing in Germany and carrying out his profession in Luxembourg — Aggregation of rights to family benefits — Calculation of the differential allowance paid by Luxembourg — Account taken of the German education allowances ‘Elterngeld’ and ‘Kindergeld’

Operative part of the judgment

Articles 1(u)(i) and 4(1)(h) 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, in the version amended and updated by Council Regulation (EC) No 118/97 of 2 December 1996, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1606/98 of 29 June 1998, and Article 10(1)(b)(i) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 of 21 March 1972 fixing the procedure for implementing Regulation No 1408/71, in the version amended and updated by Regulation No 118/97, must be interpreted as meaning that, in a situation such as that in the main proceedings, for the purpose of calculating the supplementary allowance to which a migrant worker may be entitled in his or her Member State of employment, it is not possible to take account of all the family benefits received by the worker’s family under the legislation of the Member State of residence since, subject to verifications to be carried out by the referring court, ‘Elterngeld’, provided for under German law, is not a benefit of the same kind, within the meaning of Article 12 of Regulation No 1408/71, as ‘Kindergeld’, provided for under German law, or the family allowances provided for under Luxembourg law.


(1)  OJ C 287, 22.9.2012.