Opinion of Mr Advocate General Tesauro delivered on 9 July 1991

1 Original language: Italian.

2 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community (Official Journal, English Special Edition 1971 (II), p. 416).

3 Journal Officiel 1958 L 30, p. 561.

4 Judgment in Case 75/63 Hoekstra v Bedrijfsvereniging voor Detailhandel [1964] ECR 177.

5 Judgment in Case 39/76 Mouthan v Metaalnijverheid [1976] ECR 1901.

6 Sec codified version of Regulation No 1408/71 published in OJ C 138 1980, p. 1; the provision in question essentially coincides with Article I3(2)(c) of the current version of trie regulation.

7 I4b(4) of the consolidated version.

8 Judgment in Case 60/85 Luitjen v Raad vart Arbeid [1986] ECR 2365, at paragraph 14.

9 Judgment in Case C-2/89 Kits van Heijningen v Bestuur van de Sociale Verzekeringsbank [1990] ECR I-1775.

10 Judgments in Case 110/79 Coonan v Insurance Officer [1980] ECR 1445, at paragraph 12 and in Case 266/78 Brunori v Landesversicherungsanstalt Rheinprovinz [19791 ECR 2705, at paragraph 6.

11 Judgment in Case 276/81 Soziale Verzekeringsbank v Kuijpers[1982] ECR 3027, at paragraph 14.

12 Judgment in Koks v Raad van Arbeid [1982] ECR 3013, paragraph 10.

13 Judgment in Kits van Heijningen, cited above, at paragraph 20.

14 Kits van Heijntngen judgment cited above, at paragraph 21.