Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) 5 December 1989

In Case C-114/88 REFERENCE to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the tribunal des affaires de sécurité sociale (Social Security Court), Lille, France, for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between

THE COURT (Second Chamber) composed of: F. A. Schockweiler, President of Chamber, G. F. Mancini and T. F. O'Higgins, Judges, Advocate General: G. Tesauro Registrar: B. Pastor, Administrator

after considering the observations submitted on behalf of Patrick Delbar, the applicant in the main proceedings, by M. Veroone, of the Lille Bar, the Union pour le recouvrement des cotisations de sécurité sociale et d'allocations de famille (Urssaf), Roubaix-Tourcoing, a party joined in the main proceedings, in the written procedure only, by its director, the French Government, in the written procedure only, by Edwige Belliard, Deputy Director of Legal Affairs of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Commission of the European Communities by its Legal Adviser D. Gouloussis,

having regard to the Report for the Hearing and further to the hearing on 29 June 1989,

after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General, delivered at the sitting on 29 June 1989,

gives the following

Judgment

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1 Language of the case French