SOCIAL SECURITY INCOME OR A PENSION AND PAYS INCOME TAX THERE .
5 THE PLAINTIFF IN THE MAIN PROCEEDINGS , FRANCOISE GRAVIER , WHO IS OF FRENCH NATIONALITY AND WHOSE PARENTS RESIDE IN FRANCE , WENT TO BELGIUM IN 1982 IN ORDER TO STUDY STRIP CARTOON ART AT THE ACADEMIE ROYALE DES BEAUX-ARTS IN LIEGE , IN A FOUR-YEAR COURSE OF HIGHER ART EDUCATION . FOR THE 1982-83 ACADEMIC YEAR SHE SOUGHT EXEMPTION FROM PAYMENT OF THE ENROLMENT FEE OF BFR 24 622 DEMANDED OF FOREIGN STUDENTS IN HIGHER ART EDUCATION . BY A LETTER OF 7 OCTOBER 1983 THE ACADEMIE ROYALE INFORMED HER THAT HER REQUEST HAD BEEN REJECTED ON THE GROUND THAT ' ALL FOREIGN STUDENTS MUST BE AWARE THAT SUCH EDUCATION IS NOT FREE OF CHARGE AND MUST ANTICIPATE PAYMENT OF AN ENROLMENT FEE ' .
6 AFTER HER REQUEST WAS REJECTED , MISS GRAVIER WAS ASKED TO PAY THE FEE FOR THE ACADEMIC YEARS 1982-83 AND 1983-84 . SINCE THE SUMS DEMANDED WERE NOT PAID IN TIME , HER ENROLMENT FOR THE 1983-84 YEAR WAS REFUSED . AS A RESULT HER BELGIAN RESIDENCE PERMIT WAS NOT EXTENDED . IT WAS IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT SHE BROUGHT PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRIBUNAL DE PREMIERE INSTANCE , LIEGE , CLAIMING EXEMPTION FROM PAYMENT OF THE FEE AND THE ISSUANCE OF ALL CERTIFICATES NECESSARY FOR THE EXTENSION OF HER STAY IN BELGIUM .
7 DURING THE PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRIBUNAL , THE PLAINTIFF CHALLENGED THE VALIDITY OF THE CIRCULARS WHICH IMPOSED THE ENROLMENT FEE IN QUESTION . SHE ARGUED THAT SHE COULD NOT BE OBLIGED TO PAY A FEE WHICH WAS NOT REQUIRED OF BELGIAN NATIONALS SINCE ON THE ONE HAND SUCH AN OBLIGATION CONSTITUTED DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF NATIONALITY PROHIBITED BY ARTICLE 7 OF THE TREATY AND ON THE OTHER HAND A NATIONAL OF ANOTHER MEMBER STATE GOING TO BELGIUM TO STUDY MUST BE FREE TO DO SO AS A PERSON TO WHOM SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 59 OF THE TREATY .
8 THE DEFENDANT IN THE MAIN PROCEEDINGS , THE CITY OF LIEGE , ENSURED THAT A PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE WAS ISSUED TO THE PLAINTIFF , WHO WAS THUS ABLE TO COMPLY WITH BELGIAN RESIDENCE FORMALITIES . IT TOOK THE VIEW , HOWEVER , THAT IT WAS FOR THE BELGIAN STATE AND THE COMMUNAUTE FRANCAISE , THIRD PARTIES , TO REPLY TO THE CLAIM MADE WITH REGARD TO THE CIRCULARS CONCERNING PAYMENT OF THE FEE .
9 AFTER HOLDING THAT THE CLAIM WAS OF AN URGENT NATURE , THE COURT HEARING THE MATTER CONSIDERED THAT A PROBLEM OF INTERPRETATION OF COMMUNITY LAW HAD BEEN RAISED AND THAT IT SHOULD STAY THE PROCEEDINGS UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THIS COURT HAD RULED ON THE FOLLOWING PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS :
( 1 ) IS IT IN ACCORDANCE WITH COMMUNITY LAW TO CONSIDER THAT NATIONALS OF MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY WHO ENTER THE TERRITORY OF ANOTHER MEMBER STATE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF