Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 10/10/2013

Subject: The Court, responding to the question raised in the context of a dispute regarding the lawfulness of decisions of the Netherlands authorities to make deductions, from pensions which they provide to a Netherlands national and a British national who receive pensions in accordance with the legislation of several Member States other than the States where they are resident, affirmed that Article 28(2)(b) of Regulation No 1408/71 must be interpreted as meaning that ‘legislation’ to which the pensioner has been subject for the longest period of time, for the purpose of that provision, refers to legislation concerning pensions.

Parties: F. van der Helder, D. Farrington

Classification: Solidarity - Art. 34 Social security

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