36According to the case-law of the Court, the classification of a benefit in the general scheme of Regulation No 1408/71 is based essentially on the constituent elements of that benefit, in particular its purposes and the conditions on which it is granted, and not on the classification which is made by the national legislation (see, by analogy with the distinction between benefits excluded from the scope of Regulation No 1408/71 and benefits which fall within it, inter alia, Case 9/78 Directeur régional de la Sécurité sociale de Nancy [1978] ECR 1661, paragraph 12; Case C-160/96 Molenaar [1998] ECR I-843, paragraph 19; and Case C‑177/12 Lachheb [2013] ECR, paragraph 28).
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