Opinion of Advocate General Jacobs delivered on 14 April 1994

1 Original Language: English.

2 OJ 1983 L 230, p. 6. For a consolidated version of the regulation, see OJ 1992 C 325, p. 1.

3 See in particular: Case 7/81 Sinatra v FNROM [1982] ECR 137; Case 104/83 Ciucinolo v Union Nationale iles Fédérations Mutualistes Neutres [1984] ECR 1285; Case C-85/89 Ravida v Office National des Pensions [1990] ECR I-1063 and Case C-93/90 Cassamali [1991] ECR I-1401.

4 Case 7/81, cited above in note 2.

5 Case 26/78 [1978] ECR 1771.

6 See also the judgment in Case C-78/91 Hughes [1992] ECR I-4839, paragraph 22, where the Court held that a benefit which is granted automatically to families meeting certain objective criteria, relating in particular to their size, income and capital resources, must be considered a family benefit for the purposes of Article 4(1)(h) of Regulation No 1408/71.

7 OJ 1992 L 136, p. 7.