Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Communities' Court of Justice

Date: 11/12/2009

Subject: The Court affirmed that the provisions of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on the free movement of persons do not preclude the legislation of a Member State from requiring a person, who is a national of that Member State and employed in the territory thereof to join the statutory pension insurance scheme of that Member State, despite the fact that that person is a member of the managing board of a company limited by shares governed by Swiss law when members of the managing board of a company limited by shares governed by the law of that Member State are not obliged to join that insurance scheme.

Parties: Grimme

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 15 Right of establishment - Solidarity - Art. 34 Social security

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