Reports of Cases

1998 I-02691

Subject-matter

Preliminary ruling ─ Landessozialgericht München ─ Interpretation of Art. 7(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 on freedom of movement for workers within the Community and Arts 2 and 4(1)(h) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community, as amended and updated by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2001/83 ─ Concept of employed persons ─ Person without employment dependent for many years on social assistance ─ Concept of family benefits ─ Education grant paid to a parent not engaged in an occupational activity for the purpose of caring for a young child (Erziehungsgeld)

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 6 : paragraphs 55, 56, 63
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 8A : paragraphs 59 - 62
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 48 : paragraphs 31, 32, 34, 45, 58
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 51 : paragraphs 31, 58
• Regulation 1612/68 : paragraphs 29, 32, 34, 45, 58
• Regulation 1612/68 -A07P2 : paragraphs 25 - 28, 33
• Regulation 1408/71 -A01LA : paragraphs 36, 44
• Regulation 1408/71 -A01LALII : paragraphs 42 - 44
• Regulation 1408/71 -A02 : paragraph 35
• Regulation 1408/71 -A04P1LH : paragraphs 21, 22, 24, 28
• Regulation 1408/71 -N1PT1LC : paragraphs 39, 42 - 44

Operative part

• Interprets : Regulation 1408/71 -A04P1LH
• Interprets : Regulation 1612/68 -A07P2

Opinion

• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 8A : points 16 - 20
  
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 48 : point 11
  
• Directive 64/221 : point 19
  
• Regulation 1612/68 : points 10 - 11, 13
  
• Regulation 1408/71 : points 10, 12 - 13
  
• Regulation 1408/71 -A02 : point 12
  
• Regulation 1408/71 -A01LALI : point 12
  
• Directive 90/364 : points 18 - 19
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -48/75 -N31 : point 22
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -48/75 -N32 : point 22
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -48/75 -N33 : point 22
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -66/85 -N16 : point 11
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -39/86 : point 11
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -186/87 : point 23
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -344/87 : point 11
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -245/94 : point 13
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -4/95 : point 12
  

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 20/03/1996

Date of the Opinion

• 01/07/1997

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

12/05/1998

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 145 from 18.05.1996, p.3

Judgment: OJ C 234 from 25.07.1998, p.4

Name of the parties

Martínez Sala v Freistaat Bayern

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Novak, Meinhard: Moving towards Statehood?, European Law Reporter 1998 p.304-305 (DE)
2. Idot, Laurence: Europe 1998 Juillet Comm. nº 241 p.14 (FR)
3. Van der Steen, I.: De Europese Burger krijgt handen en voeten, Nederlands tijdschrift voor Europees recht 1998 p.163-166 (NL)
4. Gutmann, Rolf: Informationsbrief Ausländerrecht 1998 p.320-322 (DE)
5. Denys, C.: Het burgerschap : meer dan een schim ?, Nederlands tijdschrift voor Europees recht 1998 p.210-213 (NL)
6. X.L.: Petites affiches. La Loi 1998 nº 148 p.14-15 (FR)
7. Albors-Llorens, Albertina: A Broader Construction of the EC Treaty Provisions on Citizenship?, The Cambridge Law Journal 1998 p.461-463 (EN)
8. X: Il Foro italiano 1998 IV Col.381-382 (IT)
9. X: Giurisprudenza italiana 1998 p.1708-1709 (IT)
10. Verschueren, Herwig: Het arrest M.S.: Hof van Justitie zet een belangrijke stap vooruit in de richting van het Europese burgerschap, Tijdschrift voor vreemdelingenrecht 1998 p.19-23 (NL)
11. Fries, Sybilla ; Shaw, Jo: Citizenship of the Union: First Steps in the European Court of Justice, European Public Law 1998 p.533-559 (EN)
12. Cabral, Pedro: La jurisprudence de la Cour de justice et du Tribunal de première instance. Chronique des arrêts, Revue du marché unique européen 1998 nº 3 p.254-256 (FR)
13. Prévédourou, Evgenia: To dikaioma tou Evropaiou politi na min yfistatai diakriseis logo ithageneias ek merous allou kratous melous (I katochi adeias diamonis os proypothesi tis chorigiseos epidomatos anatrofis), Epitheorisis Dimosiou Dikaiou kai Dioikitikou Dikaiou 1998 p.975-979 (EL)
14. O'Leary, Siofra: Putting Flesh on the Bones of European Union Citizenship, European Law Review 1999 p.68-79 (EN)
15. Luby, Monique: Chronique de jurisprudence du Tribunal et de la Cour de justice des Communautés européennes, Journal du droit international 1999 p.557-559 (FR)
16. Schrauwen, A.: S.E.W. ; Sociaal-economische wetgeving 1999 p.429-430 (NL)
17. Whelan, Anthony: Revue des affaires européennes 1999 p.228-238 (EN)
18. Whelan, Anthony: Union Citizenship and The Free Movement of Persons, The Bar Review 2000 Vol.5 p.179-185 (EN)
19. Tomuschat, Christian: Common Market Law Review 2000 p.449-457 (EN)
20. Timmermans, Christiaan: Martínez Sala and Baumbast revisited, The past and future of EU law: the classics of EU law revisited on the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty (Hart Publishing, Oxford) 2010, p. 345-355 (EN)
21. Shaw, Jo: A View of the Citizenship Classics: Martínez Sala and Subsequent Cases on Citizenship of the Union, The past and future of EU law: the classics of EU law revisited on the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty (Hart Publishing, Oxford) 2010, p. 356-362 (EN)
22. Menéndez, Agustín José: European Citizenship after Martínez Sala and Baumbast: Has European Law Become More Human but Less Social?, The past and future of EU law: the classics of EU law revisited on the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty (Hart Publishing, Oxford) 2010, p. 363-393 (EN)
23. Closa Montero, Carlos: Martínez Sala and Baumbast: an institutionalist analysis, The past and future of EU law: the classics of EU law revisited on the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty (Hart Publishing, Oxford) 2010, p. 394-401 (EN)
24. Menéndez, Agustín José: La ciudadanía europea tras Martínez Sala y Baumbast: ¿La consecución de un derecho europeo más humano pero menos social?, Revista española de Derecho Constitucional 2010 nº 89 p.289-336 (ES)
25. Schrauwen, A.A.M.: Een Spaanse moeder in Duitsland en haar recht op een ouderschapsuitkering, Het recht van de Europese Unie in 50 klassieke arresten (Ed. Boom Juridische Uitgevers - Den Haag) 2010 p.270-274 (NL)
26. Martin, Denis: De Zambrano à Dereci :. Le citoyen européen, un être déprimé à la recherche de son identité, Revue de droit du travail 2012 p.339-346 (FR)
27. X: Europees Recht 1963-1979; Jurisprudentie en Annotaties (Ed. Ars Aequi Libri - Utrecht) 2012 p.131-132 (NL)
28. Sap, Jan Willem ; Smit, Marije: Ars Aequi Jurisprudentie Europeese Recht (3e druk) 2015 p.149-150 (NL)
29. Carlier, Jean-Yves: La libre circulation des personnes dans l’Union européenne, Journal de droit européen 2016 nº 1 p.153-159 (FR)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Bayerisches Landessozialgericht - Germany

Subject-matter

• Citizenship of the Union
  
• - Right of entry and residence
  
• non-discrimination
  
• - Non-discrimination on grounds of nationality
  

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling
  

Formation of the Court

Cour plénière (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Edward

Advocate General

La Pergola

Language(s) of the Case

• German
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

• Italian