16It should first be recalled that the Court has already ruled that, for the purposes of the application of Regulation No 1408/71, the decisive criterion is that of the specific allocation of a contribution to the funding of a social security scheme of a Member State. Whether benefits are obtained or not in return is therefore irrelevant in that connection (Case C-34/98 Commission v France [2000] ECR I-995, paragraph 40, and Case C-169/98 Commission v France [2000] ECR I-1049, paragraph 38).
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