CELEX: 62013CN0598
Language: en
Date: 2013-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-598/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Suceava (Romania) lodged on 22 November 2013 — Casa Județeană de Pensii Botoșani v Polixeni Guletsou

25.1.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 24/11
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Suceava (Romania) lodged on 22 November 2013 — Casa Județeană de Pensii Botoșani v Polixeni Guletsou
   (Case C-598/13)
   2014/C 24/21
   Language of the case: Romanian
   
      Referring court
   
   Curtea de Apel Suceava
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Casa Județeană de Pensii Botoșani
   
      Defendant: Polixeni Guletsou
   
      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 those 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).