CELEX: 62019CA0303
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-303/19: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 25 November 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione — Italy) — Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale v VR (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2003/109/EC — Status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents — Article 11 — Right to equal treatment — Social security — Legislation of a Member State excluding, for the determination of rights to a family benefit, the family members of a long-term resident who do not reside in the territory of that Member State)

1.2.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 35/12
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 25 November 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione — Italy) — Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale v VR
      (Case C-303/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 2003/109/EC - Status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents - Article 11 - Right to equal treatment - Social security - Legislation of a Member State excluding, for the determination of rights to a family benefit, the family members of a long-term resident who do not reside in the territory of that Member State)
      (2021/C 35/14)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Referring court
      
      Corte suprema di cassazione
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale
      
         Defendant: VR
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 11(1)(d) of Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents must be interpreted as precluding legislation of a Member State under which, for the purposes of determining entitlement to a social security benefit, the family members of a long-term resident, within the meaning of Article 2(b) thereof, who do not reside in the territory of that Member State, but in a third country are not taken into account, whereas the family members of a national of that Member State who reside in a third country are taken into account, where that Member State has not expressed its intention of relying on the derogation to equal treatment permitted by Article 11(2) of that directive by transposing it into national law.
      
         (1)  OJ C 288, 26.8.2019.