Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 4 November 2020 – CC v Pensionsversicherungsanstalt

(Case C-576/20)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Oberster Gerichtshof

Parties to the main proceedings

Appellant: CC

Respondent: Pensionsversicherungsanstalt

Questions referred

Is Article 44(2) of Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems ¹ to be interpreted as precluding child-raising periods spent in other Member States from being taken into account by a Member State competent to grant an old-age pension – under whose legislation the applicant for a pension has pursued an activity as an employed or self-employed person throughout her working life, with the exception of those child-raising periods – solely on the ground that the applicant for a pension was not pursuing an activity as an employed or self-employed person at the date when, under the legislation of that Member State, the child-raising period started to be taken into account for the child concerned?

If the first question is answered in the negative:

Is the first clause of Article 44(2) of Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems to be interpreted as meaning that, under its legislation, the Member State which is competent under Title II of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems does not take child-raising periods into account generally, or that it does not take them into account only in a specific case?

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¹     OJ 2009 L 284, p. 1.