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OPINION OF MR ADVOCATE-GENERAL ROEMER DELIVERED ON 11 MARCH 1970 ( 1 ) Mr President, Members of the Court, The problem in the national proceedings which has given rise to the question which has to be dealt with today is concerned with the has taking into account of so-called interrupted periods when determining a pension under the German Reichsknappschaftsgesetz (theGerman law relationg to the Federal Mineworkers' Association) which governs the pensions insurance of mineworkers. Under Article 57 of this law interrupted periods are periods during which any mineworker's employment covered by compulsory insurance is interrupted by reason of sickness, accident or other events as set out therein in detail and for this reason he paid no contributions. However under Article 56 of the Reichsknappschaftsgesetz interrupted periods are added to the other insurance years to be taken into account, that is to say, are treated as insurance periods in certain circumstances; to be more precise, if contributions relating to a employment covered by compulsory pensions insurance have been paid in respect of one half of the period from the date of affiliation to the insurance scheme to the calendar month in which the risk materialized (it is called ‘Halbbelegung’ (‘50 % cover’)), provided however that contributions have been paid for not less than 60 months. With regard to contribution periods completed abroad there were no special provisions concerning 50 % cover until Regulation No 130/63 of the Council of 18 December 1963 was adopted. Article 6 of this regulation of the ... Прочетете още