CELEX: C1995/054/12
Language: en
Date: 1995-03-04 00:00:00
Title: Reference for a preliminary ruling, made pursuant to the orders of the Landessozialgericht Nordrhein-Westfalen of 25 November 1994 in the cases of Fritz Stöber v. Bundesanstalt für Arbeit and José Manuel Piosa Pereira v. Bundesanstalt für Arbeit (Cases C-4/95 and C-5/95)

4. 3. 95               m                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                      No C 54/7
If the answer is in the affirmative : Is this also the case where               non-Member State if he would ( in theory) be entitled,
national law alone is to be applied in the recovery                             were he a national of the State in which he resides, and
proceedings on the ground that the parties to the                               according to its laws, to claim unemployment benefit
enforcement proceedings are resident within the State and                       from the competent authority of the State in which he
the enforceable decision was also obtained within the                           resides by virtue of a convention between that State and
State ?                                                                         the non-Member State ?
                                                                         ( b ) Do the provisions of an international social security
                                                                                convention which is concluded with a non-Member
                                                                                State and which ranks as domestic law by virtue of
Reference for a preliminary ruling, made pursuant to the                        having been ratified constitute legislation within the
orders of the Landessozialgericht Nordrhein-Westfalen of                        meaning of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC )
25 November 1994 in the cases of Fritz Stober v.                                No 1408/71 ?
Bundesanstalt fur Arbeit and Jose Manuel Piosa Pereira v.
                     Bundesanstalt fur Arbeit                            (c) Is it possible to infer from Community law a rule that
                    (Cases C-4/95 and C-5/95 )                                  Community law is not applicable to employment in a
                                                                                non-Member State ?
                            ( 95/C 54/12 )
Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the                   ( d) Does Chapter 6 of Title III of Regulation (EEC)
European Communities by order of the Landessozialgericht                        No 1408/71 lay down definitive rules for the
Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia Higher                              calculation of periods of employment, thus excluding
Social Court) — 13th Chamber — of 25 November 1994,                             the application of the principle of equality of treatments
which were received at the Court Registry on 12 January                         in that regard ?
1995, for a preliminary ruling in the cases of Fritz Stober v.
Bundesanstalt fur Arbeit (Federal Employment Office )                    (*) Official Journal, English Special Edition 1971 II, p. 416 .
( Case C-4/95 ) and Jose Manuel Piosa Pereira v.
Bundesanstalt fur Arbeit on the following question:
for the purposes of the payment of family allowances in the
Federal Republic of Germany, is a person who carries on an
activity as a self-employed person in the Federal Republic of            Appeal brought on 13 January 1995 by John Deere Ltd
Germany and as such satisfies the definition of a                        against the judgment delivered on 27 October 1994 by the
'self-employed person' within the meaning of Article                     Second Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the
1 ( a ) ( iv ) but not the definition contained in the first             European Communities in case T-35/92 between John
sub-alternative of the second alternative in Article 1 (a ) ( ii) in     Deere Ltd and the Commission of the European
conjunction with Paragraph I.C.(b ) of Annex I a                                                    Communities
'self-employed person' within the meaning of Article 73 of                                        (Case C-7/95 P)
Regulation (EEC ) No 1408/71 ( x )?
                                                                                                     ( 95/C 54/14 )
( x ) Official Journal, English Special Edition 1971 II, p. 416.
                                                                         An appeal against the judgment delivered on 27 October
                                                                          1994 by the Second Chamber of the Court of First Instance
                                                                         of the European Communities in case T-35/92 between John
                                                                         Deere Ltd and the Commission of the European
Reference for a preliminary ruling, made pursuant to the                 Communities, was brought before the Court of Justice of
order of the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landessozialgericht                the European Communities on 13 January 1995 by John
of 28 November 1994 in the case of Aororita Hansen v.                    Deere Ltd, of 15/19 York Place, Edinburgh (United
                      Bundesanstalt fur Arbeit                           Kingdom), represented by Hans-Jorg Niemeyer and Rainer
                           (Case C-6/95 )                                Bechtold, Rechtsanwalte, of Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch and
                             ( 95/C 54/13 )                              Partners, Brussels, with an address for service in
                                                                         Luxembourg at the Chambers of Loesch and Wolter, 11 ,
                                                                         Rue Goethe.
Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the
European           Communities         by      order      of     the
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landessozialgericht ( Schleswig­                The Appellant claims that the Court should:
Holstein Higher Social Court) — 7th Division — of
28 November 1994, which was received at the Court                        1 . quash the decision of the Court of First Instance of
Registry on 13 January 1995 , for a preliminary ruling in the                  27 October 1994 in case T-35/92, notified to the
case of Aororita HanEen v. Bundesanstalt fur Arbeit                            Appellant on 3 November 1994;
( Federal Employment Office) on the following questions:
                                                                         2 . annul      the   Commission      decision   92/157/EEC      of
(a ) Under Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC )                               17 February 1992 relating to a proceeding under
       No 1408/71 0 ), is a national of a Member State                         Article 85 of the EEC Treaty (IV/B-2/3 1.370 and 31.446
       residing in another Member State entitled to                            — UK Agricultural Tractor Registration Exchange (*))
       unemployment benefit on the basis of employment in a                    and