Judgment_paragraph 47 · UB v Generálny riaditeľ Sociálnej poisťovne Bratislava (C-447/18)

47Indeed, the purpose of Article 7(2) of Regulation No 492/2011 is to achieve equal treatment, and therefore the concept of a ‘social advantage’, extended by that provision to workers who are nationals of other Member States, must include all 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 and the extension of which to workers who are nationals of other Member States therefore seems suitable to facilitate their mobility within the Union (see, to that effect, judgments of 17 April 1986, Reed, 59/85, EU:C:1986:157, paragraph 26; of 12 May 1998, Martínez Sala, C‑85/96, EU:C:1998:217, paragraph 25; and of 15 September 2005, Ioannidis, C‑258/04, EU:C:2005:559, paragraph 35) and, consequently, their integration into the host Member State.