CELEX: 62013CN0401
Language: en
Date: 2013-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-401/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Cluj (Romania) lodged on 16 July 2013 — Vasiliki Balazs v Casa Județeană de Pensii Cluj

12.10.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 298/3
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Cluj (Romania) lodged on 16 July 2013 — Vasiliki Balazs v Casa Județeană de Pensii Cluj
   (Case C-401/13)
   2013/C 298/03
   Language of the case: Romanian
   
      Referring court
   
   Curtea de Apel Cluj
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant at first instance: Vasiliki Balazs
   
      Defendant at first instance: Casa Județeană de Pensii Cluj
   
      Question referred
   
   Is Article 7(2)(c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 (1) to be interpreted as including within its scope a bilateral agreement which two Member States entered into before the date on which that regulation became applicable and by which the two states agreed to the termination of obligations relating to social security benefits owed by one state to nationals of the other state who had been political refugees in the territory of the first state and who have been repatriated to the territory of the second state, in exchange for a payment by the first state of a lump sum for the payment of pensions and to cover periods during which social security contributions were paid in the first Member State?
   
      (1)  Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of the Council of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons and their families moving within the Community (OJ, English Special Edition 1971 (II), p. 416).