Enforcement of Claims for Decision and Granting of Pension Benefits as Contract Staff of Various EU Authorities – Legal History of the Early Years of the EU as a “Teacher” and Expert “Tools of the Trade”

Abstract

The question of entitlement to pension benefits based on temporary („freelance“) contracts with EU authorities arises precisely when these have not been explicitly excluded. Although the interpretation must rightly be restrictive, there are cases that go back to the early jurisprudence of the EU and thus to the young history of European law; it can be consulted as a „teacher“ for today’s interpretation.

Keywords

• EU pension rights
• staff and „other servants“ of the EU
• „Plaumann formula“ (1963)