COURT IS ONE OF THE PERSONS COVERED BY THE SAID REGULATION .
11 ARTICLE 2 ( 1 ) OF REGULATION NO 1408/71 PROVIDES IT SHALL APPLY ' TO WORKERS WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO THE LEGISLATION OF ONE OR MORE MEMBER STATES AND WHO ARE NATIONALS OF ONE OF THE MEMBER STATES . . ., AS ALSO TO THE MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY AND THEIR SURVIVORS ' .
12 ALTHOUGH , IN DEFINING THE TERM ' MEMBER OF THE FAMILY ' OF THE WORKER , ARTICLE 1 ( F ) OF THAT REGULATION REFERS TO THE NATIONAL LEGISLATION UNDER WHICH THE BENEFIT IS PROVIDED , NEVERTHELESS THE INTERPRETATION OF THAT REFERENCE MUST RESPECT THE PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY LAW ON WHICH REGULATION NO 1408/71 IS BASED .
13 ACCORDING TO THE FIFTH RECITAL OF THE PREAMBLE , THE PROVISIONS OF THAT REGULATION ' FALL WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT FOR WORKERS WHO ARE NATIONALS OF MEMBER STATES AND SHOULD , TO THIS END , CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THE IMPROVEMENT OF THEIR STANDARD OF LIVING AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT , BY GUARANTEEING WITHIN THE COMMUNITY FIRSTLY EQUALITY OF TREATMENT FOR ALL NATIONALS OF MEMBER STATES UNDER THE VARIOUS NATIONAL LEGISLATIONS AND SECONDLY SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR WORKERS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS REGARDLESS OF THEIR PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT OR OF RESIDENCE ' .
14 TO THIS END , ARTICLE 3 ( 1 ) ENSHRINES THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY OF TREATMENT BY PROVIDING THAT ' SUBJECT TO THE SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THIS REGULATION , PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE TERRITORY OF ONE OF THE MEMBER STATES TO WHOM THIS REGULATION APPLIES SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE SAME OBLIGATIONS AND ENJOY THE SAME BENEFITS UNDER THE LEGISLATION OF ANY MEMBER STATE AS THE NATIONALS OF THAT STATE ' .
15 AS IS RECOGNIZED BY THE LAW WHICH GOVERNS THE BENEFIT IN QUESTION IN THIS INSTANCE , THE TERM MEMBER OF THE FAMILY OF A WORKER UNDOUBTEDLY INCLUDES A MINOR CHILD DEPENDENT ON HIS PARENTS .
16 AS REGARDS MORE PARTICULARLY THE CASE OF A HANDICAPPED CHILD WHO FROM HIS MINORITY FULFILS THE CONDITIONS ENTITLING HIM TO BENEFIT , AS A MEMBER OF THE EMPLOYED PERSON ' S FAMILY , FROM ALLOWANCES FOR THE HANDICAPPED , THE EQUALITY OF TREATMENT UNDER ARTICLE 3 OF REGULATION NO 1408/71 CANNOT TERMINATE WHEN HE CEASES TO BE A MINOR , IF THE CHILD BY REASON OF HIS HANDICAP IS PREVENTED FROM HIMSELF ACQUIRING THE STATUS OF EMPLOYED PERSON WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE REGULATION .
17 IF THAT WERE NOT THE CASE , A WORKER ANXIOUS TO ENSURE TO HIS CHILD THE LASTING ENJOYMENT OF THE ALLOWANCES NECESSITATED BY HIS CONDITION AS A HANDICAPPED PERSON , WOULD BE INDUCED NOT TO REMAIN IN THE MEMBER STATE WHERE HE HAS ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AND HAS FOUND HIS EMPLOYMENT , WHICH WOULD RUN COUNTER TO THE OBJECT SOUGHT TO BE ATTAINED BY THE PRINCIPLE OF FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT FOR WORKERS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY , BEARING IN MIND INTER ALIA THE