Judgment_paragraph 50 · Eugenia Florescu and Others v Casa Judeţeană de Pensii Sibiu and Others (C-258/14)

50In that regard, where legislation provides for the automatic payment of a social benefit, it generates a proprietary interest for persons meeting the requirements thereof falling within the ambit of Article 1 of Protocol No 1 to that convention (ECtHR, 7 July 2011, Stummer v. Austria, CE:ECHR:2011:0707JUD003745202, § 82). The rights resulting from the payment of contributions to a social security scheme thus constitute rights of property for the purposes of that article (ECtHR, 12 October 2004, Kjartan Ásmundsson v. Iceland, CE:ECHR:2004:1012JUD006066900, § 39). However, the right to property enshrined in that article cannot be interpreted as entitling a person to a pension of a particular amount (ECtHR, 12 October 2004, Kjartan Ásmundsson v. Iceland, CE:ECHR:2004:1012JUD006066900, § 39).