Judgment_paragraph 65 · European Commission v Kingdom of the Netherlands (C-542/09)

65As regards migrant workers and frontier workers, the fact that they have participated in the employment market of a Member State establishes, in principle, a sufficient link of integration with the society of that Member State, allowing them to benefit from the principle of equal treatment, as compared with national workers, as regards social advantages. That principle is applicable not only to all employment and working conditions, but also to all the advantages which, whether or not linked to a contract of employment, are generally granted to national workers primarily because of their objective status as workers or by virtue of the mere fact of their residence on the national territory (see, inter alia, Case C-85/96 Martínez Sala [1998] ECR I-2691, paragraph 25, and Commission v Germany, paragraph 39).

European Commission v Kingdom of the Netherlands (C-542/09)

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