Judgment_paragraph 26 · FS v Chief Appeals Officer and Others (C-3/21)

26The objective of Article 81 of Regulation No 883/2004 is to facilitate the movement of migrant workers by simplifying the administrative formalities with which they must comply, in view of the complexity of the administrative procedures existing in the various Member States, and to prevent persons concerned from being deprived of their rights on purely formal grounds. Thus, by virtue of that article, the submission of a claim to an authority, institution or tribunal of a Member State other than the Member State called upon to pay the benefit has the same effect as if that claim had been submitted direct to the competent authority of the latter Member State (see, to that effect, with regard to Article 83 of Regulation No 4, judgment of 10 June 1982, Camera, 92/81, EU:C:1982:219, paragraph 7, and, with regard to Article 86 of Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons and their families moving within the Community (OJ 1971 L 149, p. 2), judgment of 27 May 1982, Aubin, 227/81, EU:C:1982:209, paragraph 23).