Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) 9 July 1987

In Joined Cases 82 and 103/86 REFERENCES to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the Tribunal du travail (Labour Tribunal), Brussels, and the Cour du travail (Labour Court), Mons, for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before those courts between, on the one hand,

THE COURT (Second Chamber), composed of: T. F. O'Higgins, President of Chamber, O. Due and K. Bahlmann, Judges, Advocate General: J. Mischo Registrar: H. A. Rühi, Principal Administrator

after considering the observations submitted on behalf of Giancarlo Laborero and Francesca Sabato, the plaintiffs in the main proceedings in Case 82/86 and Case 103/86 respectively, by D. Rossini, a trade union delegate, the Office de sécurité sociale d'outre-mer, the defendant in the main proceedings, by its advisers, M. Waelbroeck and M. Van der Haegen, of the Brussels Bar, the Belgian Government by R. Hoebaer, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Cooperation with Developing Countries, the Italian Government, by L. Ferrari Bravo, Head of the Department for Contentious Diplomatic Affairs, Treaties and Legislation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by P. G. Ferri, Avvocato dello Stato, acting as Agent, the Commission of the European Communities, by Mrs Wolfcarius, a member of its Legal Department,

having regard to the Report for the Hearing and further to the hearing on 19 March 1987,

after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General delivered at the sitting on 4 June 1987,

gives the following

Judgment

The concept of worker

Scope of application of the regulation and the concept of legislation of a Member State

Costs

1 Language of tile Case: French.