CELEX: 62014CN0308
Language: en
Date: 2014-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-308/14: Action brought on 27 June 2014 — European Commission v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

22.9.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 329/2
            
         Action brought on 27 June 2014 — European Commission v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
   (Case C-308/14)
   2014/C 329/03
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: D. Martin, M. Wilderspin, agents)
   
      Defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
   
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
   
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               declare that the United Kingdom, by the requirement that a claimant for Child Benefit or Child tax Credit have a right to reside in the United Kingdom, has failed to comply with its obligations under Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 (1);
            
         
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               order the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The Commission maintains that in requiring a claimant of Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit to have a right to reside in the United Kingdom as a condition of being treated as resident there, the United Kingdom has imposed a condition that Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 does not permit.
   Alternatively the Commission submits that by imposing a condition of entitlement to social security benefits that is automatically met by its own nationals the United Kingdom has created a situation of direct discrimination against nationals of other Member States and thus breached article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004.
   
      (1)  Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems OJ L 166, p. 1.