CELEX: 62021CN0283
Language: en
Date: 2021-05-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-283/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landessozialgericht Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) lodged on 4 May 2021 — VA v Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund

2.8.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 310/10
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landessozialgericht Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) lodged on 4 May 2021 — VA v Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund
      (Case C-283/21)
      (2021/C 310/13)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Landessozialgericht Nordrhein-Westfalen
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: VA
      
         Defendant: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund
      
         Intervener: RB
      
         Questions referred
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Is under the legislation of the Netherlands — as the Member State which is competent under Title II of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004] (1) — a child-raising period taken into account within the meaning of Article 44(2) of Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 (2) by virtue of the fact that the period of child-raising in the Netherlands, as a pure period of residence, gives rise to a pension entitlement?
                  If Question 1 is answered in the negative:
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Is Article 44(2) of Regulation No 987/2009 — following on from the judgments of 23 November 2000 in Case C-135/99 (3) and of 19 July 2012 in Case C-522/10 (4) — to be interpreted broadly as meaning that the competent Member State must also take into account the child-raising period if the person raising the child has completed pension-relevant periods before and after the child-raising due to education or employment only in the scheme of that State, but did not pay contributions into that scheme immediately before or after the child-raising?
               
            
         (1)  Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ 2004 L 166, p. 1).
      
         (2)  Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ 2009 L 284, p. 1).
      
         (3)  EU:C:2000:647, Elsen.
      
         (4)  EU:C:2012:475, Reichel-Albert.