Opinion of Advocate General Tesauro delivered on 26 April 1994

1 Original language: Italian.

2 Sec the codified version contained in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2001/83 (OJ 1983 L 230. p. 6).

3 Law of 11 December 1975, Staatsblad 674.

4 Law of 18 February 1966. Staatsblad 84.

5 My emphasis.

6 See Council Regulation (EEC) No 1390/31 of 12 May 1981 extending to self-employed persons and members of their families Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 (OJ 1981 L 143, p. 1).

7 See Case C-293/8S Winter-Lutzins [1990] ECR I-1623, paragraph 13. Similarly, see Case C-282/91 De Wit [1993] ECR I-1221, paragraph 16.

8 See inter alia Case C-349/87 Paraschi [1991] ECR I-4501, paragraph 22.

9 In that connection see, most recently, Joined Cases C-45/92 and C-46/92 Lepore and Scamuffa [1993] ECR I-6497, paragraph 21.

10 See Parascbi, cited above, paragraph 23.

11 See Case 109/76 Blottner [1977] ECR 1141, in particular paragraphs 11, 12, 15, 16 and 17. In Blottner another point at issue was the applicability of Article 45(4) (Article 45(3) at the time) of Regulation No 1408/71 to a person who had ceased working before the risk insured against materialized.

12 See Parsscbl, cited above, paragraphs 15 and 16.