Overview of Recent Cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union (January–June 2016)
| Author | Anne Pieter van der Mei |
| Published date | 01 December 2016 |
| Date | 01 December 2016 |
| DOI | 10.1177/138826271601800404 |
| Subject Matter | Recent Case Law |
European Jour nal of Social Sec urity, Volume 18 (2016), No. 4 399
OVERVIEW OF RECENT CASES
BEFORE THE COURT OF JUSTICE
OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
(JANUARY-JUNE 2016)
A P M*
In the rst half of 2016 (the reporting period) the Court of Justice of the European
Union (EU) delivered various interesting rulings concerning the rights to social
(security) bene ts of Union citizens who exercise their free movement rights. e
rulings touch upon a variety of issues, including (i) the right of Union citizens who
have only resided in another Member State for a short period of time to claim socia l
assistance (García-Nieto), (ii) the competence of Member States to make entitlement
to social security bene ts falling within the scope of Regulation 883/2004 on the
coordination of social securit y systems1 conditional upon lawful residence in t heir
territory (Commission v United Kingdom), (iii) Member States’ declarations on the
application of the coordination ru les to their social bene t systems (Commission
v Malta), (iv) the pri nciple of equal treatment of bene ts, income, facts or events
(Knauer), (v) the pension rig hts of civil servants who resign (Commission v Cyprus)
and (vi) the aggregation rule s for unemployment bene ts (M.).
1. SHORTTERM RESIDENTS AND ACCESS TO SOCIAL
ASSISTANCE: GARCÍANIETO
García-Nieto is the latest in a series of recent ru lings in which the Court has moved
away from its classic ‘citizenship case law’. a t c as e la w i mpl ie d, in bri ef , t hat (i) Uni on
citizens who lawf ully reside in another Member State on the basi s of EU law,2 national
law3 or international law4 were entitled to equal treatment regardles s of nationality as
* Ass ocia te Pr ofes sor in EU Law, M aas tri cht C entr e for Euro pea n law. Addr ess : P.O. Bo x 616, 6 200 MD
Maastricht, e Netherland s; tel: +31 43 3884832; e-mail: ap.vander mei@maastrichtu niversity.nl
1 Regulation No.883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29April 2004 on the
coordination of so cial secur ity systems (OJ 2004 L 166, p.1, and cor rigendum at OJ 2004 L200, p.1).
2 Rudy Grzelczyk v Centre publ ic d’aide sociale d ’Ottignie s-Louvain-la-Neuve, Case C-184/99,
ECLI:EU:C:2001:458.
3 Michel Trojani v Centre public d’aide soc iale de Br uxel les (CPAS), Case C-456/02, ECLI:EU:C:2004:488.
4 María Martínez Sala v Fre istaat Bayern, Ca se C-85/96, ECLI:EU:C:1998:217.
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