CELEX: 62014CA0453
Language: en
Date: 2016-01-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-453/14: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 21 January 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Austria) — Vorarlberger Gebietskrankenkasse, Alfred Knauer v Landeshauptmann von Vorarlberg (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 — Article 5 — Meaning of ‘equivalent benefits’ — Equal treatment of old-age benefits of two Member States of the European Economic Area — National legislation taking into account old-age benefits received in other Member States for the purpose of calculating social security contributions)

14.3.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 98/13
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 21 January 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Austria) — Vorarlberger Gebietskrankenkasse, Alfred Knauer v Landeshauptmann von Vorarlberg
   (Case C-453/14) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 - Article 5 - Meaning of ‘equivalent benefits’ - Equal treatment of old-age benefits of two Member States of the European Economic Area - National legislation taking into account old-age benefits received in other Member States for the purpose of calculating social security contributions))
   (2016/C 098/15)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Verwaltungsgerichtshof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellants: Vorarlberger Gebietskrankenkasse, Alfred Knauer
   
      Respondent: Landeshauptmann von Vorarlberg
   
      Other party to the proceedings: Rudolf Mathis
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 5(a) of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems must be interpreted as meaning that, in circumstances such as those at issue in the main proceedings, old-age benefits provided under an occupational pension scheme of one Member State and those provided under a statutory pension scheme of another Member State — both schemes being within the scope of that regulation — are equivalent benefits within the meaning of that provision, where both categories of benefits have the same aim of ensuring that their recipients maintain a standard of living commensurate with that which they enjoyed prior to retirement.
   
      (1)  OJ C 462, 22.12.2014.