CELEX: 62014CA0012
Language: en
Date: 2016-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-12/14: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 3 March 2016 — European Commission v Republic of Malta (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Social security — Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 — Article 46b — Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 — Article 54 — Old-age pensions — Rules against overlapping — Persons entitled to an old-age pension under the rules of one Member State and to a civil-service pension under the rules of another Member State — Reduction in the amount of the old-age pension)

2.5.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 156/2
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 3 March 2016 — European Commission v Republic of Malta
   (Case C-12/14) (1)
   
   ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Social security - Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 - Article 46b - Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 - Article 54 - Old-age pensions - Rules against overlapping - Persons entitled to an old-age pension under the rules of one Member State and to a civil-service pension under the rules of another Member State - Reduction in the amount of the old-age pension))
   (2016/C 156/02)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: K. Mifsud-Bonnici and D. Martin, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Malta (represented by: A. Buhagiar and P. Grech, acting as Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Republic of Austria (represented by: C. Pesendorfer and G. Hesse, acting as Agents), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: J. Beeko, S. Behzadi-Spencer and V. Kaye, acting as Agents, assisted by T. de la Mare QC)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Austria and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 159, 26.5.2014.