SOCIAL SECURITY : FRENCH SUPPLEMENTARY ALLOWANCE DEEMED TO BE NON-EXPORTABLE.

A European citizen is not normally entitled to receive a supplementary allowance from the French Old-age Solidarity Fund if he is not resident in France, ruled the Court of Justice of the European Communities. The allowance, which features in Annex IIa of Regulation 1408/71 on social security systems, is a priori non-contributory. The Court, however, left this last point open since the information in the file submitted to the Court was not sufficiently clear (judgement handed down on 17 January 2007, Jose Perez Naranjo/Caisse regionale d'assurance maladie - CRAM - Nord-Picardie, Case...