30In that respect, that court asks, inter alia, whether the judgments in Case C-293/03 My [2004] ECR I-12013 and in Case C-185/04 Öberg [2006] ECR I-1453 are not such as to dictate such an approach, in particular given that the first of those judgments points out that, in the light of Article 10 EC, it cannot be accepted that national legislation can impede and, therefore, discourage the exercise of a professional activity within an institution of the European Union by depriving an employee of the enjoyment of social benefits to which he would have been entitled under his national scheme had he not undertaken such an activity. It is, however, necessary to determine whether the fact that ECB staff are exempt from German tax on wages, whereas the parental allowance is tax-funded, precludes transposition of that view to a case such as that at issue in the main proceedings.
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