CELEX: C1999/204/57
Language: en
Date: 1999-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-180/99: Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Bundessozialgericht by order of 15 October 1998 in the case of Meriem Addou v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen

C 204/30               EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                    17.7.1999
2. Is it compatible with free movement of capital for consent            Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Oberster
     of the land transfer authority, which has constitutive effect,      Gerichtshof by order of 27 April 1999 in the case of Hugo
     to be required for the acquisition of building land?                  Boss Aktiengesellschaft v Trigavina in Storitve D.O.O.
3. What effect does the standstill clause in point 1(e) of                                       (Case C-183/99)
     Annex XII to the EEA Agreement have on new types of
     situations requiring consent under land transfer law created
                                                                                                 (1999/C 204/58)
     after the signature of the EEA Agreement on 2 May 1992?
                                                                         Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the
                                                                         European Communities by order of 27 April 1999 from the
                                                                         Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court), which was
                                                                         received at the Court Registry on 18 May 1999, for a
                                                                         preliminary ruling in the case of Hugo Boss Aktiengesellschaft
                                                                         v Trigavina in Storitve D.O.O. on the following question:
Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Bundessozial-                  On a proper construction of Article 1 thereof, is Council
gericht by order of 15 October 1998 in the case of Meriem                Regulation (EC) No 3295/94 of 22 December 1994 laying
              Addou v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen                           down measures to prohibit the release for free circulation,
                                                                         export, re-export or entry for a suspensive procedure of
                                                                         counterfeit and pirated goods (Official Journal of the European
                         (Case C-180/99)                                 Communities L 341 of 30 December 1994) also applicable to
                                                                         situations in which goods of the type specified therein are, in
                                                                         the course of transit between two countries not belonging to
                         (1999/C 204/57)                                 the European Community, temporarily detained by the
                                                                         customs authorities in a Member State on the basis of that
                                                                         regulation, at the request of a holder of rights who claims that
Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the                   his rights have been infringed and whose undertaking has
European Communities by order of 15 October 1998 from                    its registered office in a Member State of the European
the Bundessozialgericht (Federal Social Court), which was                Community?
received at the Court Registry on 17 May 1999, for a
preliminary ruling in the case of Meriem Addou v Land
Nordrhein-Westfalen on the following questions:
1. Does Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 (1) of 14 June
     1971 on the application of social security schemes to
     employed persons, to self-employed persons and to mem-
     bers of their families moving within the Community apply            Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Tribunal de
     to refugees and to members of their families who are                Travail de Nivelles (Second Chamber), Section de Wavre,
     nationals of a non-member country if such persons have              by judgment of that court of 7 May 1999 in the case of
     no right of free movement under the Treaty of 25 March              Rudy Grzelczyk against the Centre Public d’Aide Sociale
     1957 establishing the European Community, as amended                                d’Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve
     by the Treaty of 7 February 1992 on European Union?
                                                                                                 (Case C-184/99)
2. If the answer to Question 1 is in the affirmative: Does
     Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 also apply in the case where
     a refugee working as an employed person and the members                                     (1999/C 204/59)
     of his family have travelled directly to a Member State
     from a non-member country and have not moved within                 Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the
     the Community?                                                      European Communities by judgment of the Tribunal de Travail
                                                                         de Nivelles (Second Chamber), Section de Wavre, of 7 May
3. If the answer to Question 2 is in the affirmative: Is a               1999, received at the Court Registry on 19 May 1999, for a
     family benefit such as child-raising allowance under the            preliminary ruling in the case of Rudy Grzelczyk against the
     Bundeserziehungsgeldgesetz (German Federal Law on                   Centre Public d’Aide Sociale d’Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve on
     Child-Raising Allowance) also payable to the spouse of              the following questions:
     such an employed person who is likewise not a national of
     a Member State and who is herself neither an employed               1. Is it contrary to Community law — more particularly, the
     person nor a recognised refugee?                                        principles of European citizenship and of non-
                                                                             discrimination enshrined in Articles 6 and 8 of the Treaty
                                                                             established in the European Community — for entitlement
(1) JO L 149 of 5.7.1971, p. 2; OJ, English Special Edition 1971 (II),       to a social benefit under a non-contributory scheme, such
    p. 416.                                                                  as that introduced by the Belgian Law of 7 August 1974
                                                                             on the minimum means of subsistence, to be conferred
                                                                             only on nationals of the Member States to whom Regu-
                                                                             lation (EEC) No 1612/68 of 15 October 1968 (1) applies
                                                                             and not on all citizens of the Union?