CELEX: C2001/186/01
Language: en
Date: 2001-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 8 March 2001 in Case C-68/99: Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (Failure to fulfil obligations — Freedom of establishment — Freedom to provide services — Social security — Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 — Funding of the social insurance scheme for self-employed artists and journalists — Contribution collected from undertakings which market the work of artists and journalists, calculated on the basis of the remuneration paid to the authors — Account taken of remuneration paid to artists and journalists subject to the social security legislation of another Member State)

30.6.2001               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                              C 186/1
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                                                     COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                               COURT OF JUSTICE
                 JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                       Community as amended and updated by Council Regulation
                                                                             (EC) No 118/97 of 2 December 1996 (OJ 1997 L 28, p. 1) —
                         (Sixth Chamber)                                     the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of: C. Gulmann, Presi-
                                                                             dent of the Chamber, V. Skouris, J.-P. Puissochet (Rapporteur),
                         of 8 March 2001                                     R. Schintgen and F. Macken, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer,
                                                                             Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment
in Case C-68/99: Commission of the European Communi-                         on 8 March 2001, in which it:
            ties v Federal Republic of Germany(1)
                                                                             1.    Dismisses the application;
(Failure to fulfil obligations — Freedom of establishment —                  2.    Orders the Commission of the European Communities to pay
Freedom to provide services — Social security — Regulation                         the costs.
(EEC) No 1408/71 — Funding of the social insurance scheme
for self-employed artists and journalists — Contribution                     (1) OJ C 121 of 1.5.1999.
collected from undertakings which market the work of artists
and journalists, calculated on the basis of the remuneration
paid to the authors — Account taken of remuneration paid
to artists and journalists subject to the social security
              legislation of another Member State)
                          (2001/C 186/01)                                                     JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                   (Language of the case: German)                                                      (First Chamber)
                                                                                                      of 8 March 2001
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
                   in the European Court Reports)                            in Case C-240/99 (reference for a preliminary ruling from
                                                                             the Regeringsrätten): proceedings brought by Försäkring-
In Case C-68/99: Commission of the European Communities                                       saktiebolaget Skandia (publ) (1)
(Agents: P. Hillenkamp and A. Buschmann) v Federal Republic
of Germany (Agents: W.-D. Plessing and C.-D. Quassowski) —                   (Sixth VAT Directive — Exemptions — Insurance and
application for a declaration that, by applying Paragraph 23 et                                  reinsurance transactions)
seq. of the Künstlersozialversicherungsgesetz (Law on social
insurance for artists) to artists and journalists who reside in                                        (2001/C 186/02)
another EU Member State and normally pursue a self-employed
activity both in that other Member State and in the Federal
Republic of Germany, and who are thus exclusively subject, as                                   (Language of the case: Swedish)
regards the social security system, to the legislation of the
Member State in the territory of which they reside, the Federal
Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under               (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
Articles 51, 52 and/or 59 of the EC Treaty (now, after                                          in the European Court Reports)
amendment, Articles 42 EC and 43 EC and/or 49 EC) and
Title II, specifically the first sentence of Article 14a(2) in               In Case C-240/99: reference to the Court under Article 234
conjunction with Article 13(1) and (2)(b), of Council Regu-                  EC from the Regeringsrätten (Supreme Administrative Court)
lation No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of                      Sweden for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending
social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed                before that court brought by Försäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia
persons and to members of their families moving within the                   (publ) — on the interpretation of Article 13B(a) of Sixth