36The Court has clarified, as regards Article 73 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to their families moving within the Community, in the version amended and updated by Council Regulation (EC) No 118/97 of 2 December 1996 (OJ 1997 L 28, p. 1), which was succeeded by Article 67 of Regulation No 883/2004 and the content of which is, in essence, identical to the latter, that that article is designed to make it easier for migrant workers to draw family allowances in the State where they are employed, in cases where their family has not moved with them, and in particular to prevent a Member State from being able to make the grant or the amount of family benefits dependent on members of the worker’s family being resident in the Member State paying the benefit (judgment of 14 October 2010, Schwemmer, C‑16/09, EU:C:2010:605, paragraph 41 and case law cited).
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