Judgment_paragraph 32 · Mervett Khalil, Issa Chaaban and Hassan Osseili v Bundesanstalt für Arbeit and Mohamad Nasser v Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart and Meriem Addou v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen (C-95/99)

32Similarly, the Spanish Government submits that Article 51 of the EC Treaty constitutes a legal basis which is sufficient to include stateless persons and refugees in the personal scope of Regulation No 1408/71. Coordinating the social security rules of the Member States should indeed take account of the obligations in public international law, in relation to stateless persons and refugees, which are imposed on the Member States as a result of the ratification of the Geneva and New York Conventions. That conclusion is borne out by Case 35/74 Rzepa [1974] ECR 1241, in which the Court of Justice applied Regulation No 3 to a refugee.