WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1073/99 by Anne McINTOSH Social security requirements
3. 12. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 348/151 (1999/C 348/209) WRITTEN QUESTION P-1073/99 by Anne McIntosh (PPE) to the Commission (13 April 1999) Subject: Social security requirements What action does the Commission intend to take against the French authorities in the Pyrénées-Orientales for breaking Article 84(4) of Regulation 1408/71 (1), given the Commission’s admission to me in a letter from Padraig Flynn of March 1999 that it is forbidden under this Regulation to ask a non-French EU national resident in France for a translation of his birth certificate when applying for a national identification number? (1) OJ L 149, 5. 7. 1971, p. 2. Answer given by Mr Flynn on behalf of the Commission (3 May 1999) The Commission can inform the Honourable Member that it will be writing to the French authorities concerning the case to which she refers. The French authorities will be asked what measures they intend to take in view of the fact that the French social security institution in the Pyrénées-Orientales requested a non- French Union citizen to present a French translation of his birth certificate in order to be given a national identification number, although Article 84(4) of Regulation (EEC) 1408/71 of the Council of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons and their families moving within the Community provides that authorities, institutions and tribunals of a Member State may not reject claims or other documents submitted to them on the grounds that they are written in an official language of another Member State