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Caisse pour l'avenir des enfants (C-802/18)
The questions referred for a prelimina…
The second and third questions
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Caisse pour l'avenir des enfants (C-802/18)

Judgment of 2 Apr 2020law://eu/cjeu/2018/c-802-18/para_58@2026-11-10

58In order to be justified, that indirect discrimination must be appropriate for securing the attainment of a legitimate objective and must not go beyond what is necessary to attain that objective (see to that effect, judgment of 10 July 2019, Aubriet, C‑410/18, EU:C:2019:582, paragraph 29).

Source: EUR-Lex, © European Union, 1998-2026. Reuse authorised under Decision 2011/833/EU.

Key facts

Court: Court of Justice · Sixth Chamber
Case: C-802/18 · ECLI:EU:C:2020:269
Decided: 2 Apr 2020
Procedure: Preliminary reference · referred by the conseil supérieur de la sécurité sociale (Higher Social Security Board, Luxembourg)
Applicant: Caisse pour l’avenir des enfants
Defendants: FV; GW
Rapporteur: N. Jääskinen
Advocate General: M. Szpunar
Bench: 3 judges
M. Safjan, C. Toader, N. Jääskinen
Language: French
Official: CURIA · EUR-Lex 62018CJ0802

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Citizenship of the Union Freedom of movement for workers Social security

History · 1 version

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Interprets 4: Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (consolidated 2016)2 provisions; Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64/221/EEC, 68/360/EEC, 72/194/EEC, 73/148/EEC, 75/34/EEC, 75/35/EEC, 90/364/EEC, 90/365/EEC and 93/96/EEC (Text with EEA relevance); Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems (Text with relevance for the EEA and for Switzerland); Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on freedom of movement for workers within the Union Text with EEA relevance
Cited by 7: SM and Others v Caisse pour l'avenir des enfants (C-296/24)4 provisions; FV v Caisse pour l'avenir des enfants (C-27/23)2 provisions; Thermalhotel Fontana Hotelbetriebsgesellschaft m.b.H. v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Südoststeiermark (C-411/22); DN v Finanzamt Österreich (C-199/21); European Commission v Republic of Austria (C-328/20)2 provisions; Associazione per gli Studi Giuridici sull’Immigrazione (ASGI) and Others v Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri – Dipartimento per le politiche della famiglia and Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze (C-462/20); O.D. and Others v Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) (C-350/20)
Cites 21: Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (consolidated 2016); Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of the Council of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons and their families moving within the Community; Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64/221/EEC, 68/360/EEC, 72/194/EEC, 73/148/EEC, 75/34/EEC, 75/35/EEC, 90/364/EEC, 90/365/EEC and 93/96/EEC (Text with EEA relevance); María Martínez Sala v Freistaat Bayern (C-85/96); Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems (Text with relevance for the EEA and for Switzerland); Bundesagentur für Arbeit - Familienkasse Sachsen v Tomislaw Trapkowski (C-378/14); Maria do Céu Bragança Linares Verruga and Others v Ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la recherche (C-238/15); Alphonse Eschenbrenner v Bundesagentur für Arbeit (C-496/15); Nicolas Aubriet v Ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (C-410/18)2 provisions; Kerly Del Rosario Martinez Silva v Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) and Comune di Genova (C-449/16); European Commission v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (C-308/14); Nicolas Bressol and Others and Céline Chaverot and Others v Gouvernement de la Communauté française (C-73/08); Romana Slanina v Unabhängiger Finanzsenat, Außenstelle Wien (C-363/08); UB v Generálny riaditeľ Sociálnej poisťovne Bratislava (C-447/18); European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany (C-206/10); Anna Humer (C-255/99); Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 of the Council of 15 October 1968 on freedom of movement for workers within the Community; Noémie Depesme and Others v Ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la recherche (C-401/15, C-402/15, C-403/15); Directive 2014/54/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on measures facilitating the exercise of rights conferred on workers in the context of freedom of movement for workers Text with EEA relevance; Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on freedom of movement for workers within the Union Text with EEA relevance; Boguslawa Zaniewicz-Dybeck v Pensionsmyndigheten (C-189/16)