CELEX: 62019CA0636
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-636/19: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 28 October 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Centrale Raad van Beroep — Netherlands) — Y v CAK (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Cross-border healthcare — Concept of ‘insured person’ — Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 — Article 1(c) — Article 2 — Article 24 — Right to the benefits in kind provided by the Member State of residence at the expense of the Member State responsible for paying the pension — Directive 2011/24/EU — Article 3(b)(i) — Article 7 — Reimbursement of the costs of healthcare received in a Member State other than the Member State of residence and the Member State responsible for paying the pension — Conditions)

3.1.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 2/3
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 28 October 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Centrale Raad van Beroep — Netherlands) — Y v CAK
      (Case C-636/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Cross-border healthcare - Concept of ‘insured person’ - Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 - Article 1(c) - Article 2 - Article 24 - Right to the benefits in kind provided by the Member State of residence at the expense of the Member State responsible for paying the pension - Directive 2011/24/EU - Article 3(b)(i) - Article 7 - Reimbursement of the costs of healthcare received in a Member State other than the Member State of residence and the Member State responsible for paying the pension - Conditions)
      (2022/C 2/03)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Centrale Raad van Beroep
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Y
      
         Defendant: CAK
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 3(b)(i) and Article 7(1) of Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare, read in combination with Article 1(c) and Article 2 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, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 988/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009, must be interpreted as meaning that the person in receipt of a pension under the legislation of a Member State, who has a right, under Article 24 of that regulation, as amended, to the benefits in kind provided by the Member State of his or her residence at the expense of the Member State responsible for paying his or her pension, must be regarded as an ‘insured person’, within the meaning of Article 7(1) of that directive, who is able to obtain reimbursement of the costs of the cross-border healthcare that he or she has received in a third Member State, without being affiliated to the compulsory sickness insurance scheme of the Member State responsible for paying his or her pension.
      
         (1)  OJ C 383, 11.11.2019