C ) SHALL ONLY BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT FOR CALCULATION OF THE OLD-AGE PENSION IF THE PERSON CONCERNED HAS RESIDED FOR SIX YEARS IN THE TERRITORY OF ONE OR MORE MEMBER STATES AFTER THE AGE OF 59 YEARS AND FOR AS LONG AS THAT PERSON IS RESIDING IN THE TERRITORY OF ONE OF THOSE MEMBER STATES . '
6 IT APPEARS FROM THE ORDER REQUESTING A PRELIMINARY RULING THAT MR DE JONG , WHO WAS BORN ON 27 JULY 1918 , IS MARRIED TO A WOMAN OF ITALIAN ORIGIN , WHO WAS BORN ON 4 AUGUST 1920 AND WHO OBTAINED NETHERLANDS NATIONALITY BY VIRTUE OF THEIR MARRIAGE ON 30 OCTOBER 1950 . THE MARRIED COUPLE RESIDED IN THE NETHERLANDS FROM 16 FEBRUARY 1951 TO 17 APRIL 1982 , WHEN THEY MOVED TO ITALY . IN 1957 MR DE JONG WAS RECOGNIZED AS UNFIT FOR WORK AND HE IS IN RECEIPT OF BENEFITS UNDER THE LAW ON INCAPACITY FOR WORK .
7 WHEN THE VERZEKERINGSBANK CALCULATED THE MARRIED MAN ' S OLD-AGE PENSION TO WHICH MR DE JONG HAS BEEN ENTITLED SINCE 27 JULY 1983 , IT APPLIED A REDUCTION OF 15% . IT TOOK THE VIEW THAT MR DE JONG QUALIFIED UNDER THE TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS LAID DOWN IN ARTICLES 43 AND 44 OF THE OLD-AGE LAW AND THE ROYAL DECREE OF 20 DECEMBER 1956 , SINCE HE HAD BEEN INSURED UNDER THE OLD-AGE LAW WITHOUT INTERRUPTION FROM 1 JANUARY 1957 , EVEN AFTER HIS DEPARTURE FOR ITALY , AS A RECIPIENT OF BENEFITS UNDER THE LAW ON INCAPACITY FOR WORK . IN THE CASE OF HIS WIFE , HOWEVER , THE 15 YEARS BETWEEN HER 15TH BIRTHDAY AND THE DATE ON WHICH THE MARRIED COUPLE SETTLED IN THE NETHERLANDS COULD NOT BE TREATED AS INSURANCE PERIODS .
8 THE VERZEKERINGSBANK BASED ITS DECISION ON THE FACT THAT MR DE JONG ' S WIFE WAS NOT INSURED UNDER THE OLD-AGE LAW BETWEEN THE DATE ON WHICH SHE AND HER HUSBAND DEPARTED FOR ITALY AND THE DATE ON WHICH MR DE JONG ATTAINED THE AGE OF 65 AND CONSEQUENTLY COULD NOT BE REGARDED AS A PERSON RESIDING IN THE NETHERLANDS WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLES 43 AND 44 OF THE OLD-AGE LAW . ALTHOUGH ACCORDING TO POINT 2 ( C ) OF PART I OF ANNEX VI TO REGULATION NO 1408/71 THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE DATE ON WHICH THEY DEPARTED FOR ITALY AND MR DE JONG ' S 65TH BIRTHDAY AND , MOREOVER , THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE DATE ON WHICH THEY SETTLED IN THE NETHERLANDS AND THE DATE ON WHICH THE OLD-AGE LAW ENTERED INTO FORCE ' SHALL BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT AS INSURANCE PERIODS ' IN SO FAR AS THOSE PERIODS ARE PERIODS OF THEIR MARRIAGE AND COINCIDE WITH PERIODS OF INSURANCE COMPLETED BY MR DE JONG , THAT FACT DID NOT , ACCORDING TO THE VERZEKERINGSBANK , RENDER THE TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN ARTICLE 43 OF THE OLD-AGE LAW AND THE ROYAL DECREE OF 20 DECEMBER 1956 APPLICABLE SINCE