Raad van bestuur van de Sociale verzekeringsbank (Transfert de prestations de survie) (EC-Algeria Association Agreement - Social security for Algerian migrant workers and their survivors - Judgment)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - EC-Algeria Association Agreement - Social security for Algerian migrant workers and their survivors - Transfer of benefits to Algeria at the rates applied by virtue of the legislation of the debtor Member State - Survivors’ benefit - National legislation applying the country-of-residence principle - Residence clause involving a reduction in the amount of survivors’ benefit for recipients residing in Algeria)

REQUEST for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Centrale Raad van Beroep (Higher Social Security and Civil Service Court, Netherlands), made by decision of 15 August 2022, received at the Court on 18 August 2022, in the proceedings

composed of A. Prechal, President of the Chamber, F. Biltgen, N. Wahl, J. Passer and M.L. Arastey Sahún (Rapporteur), Judges,

having regard to the written procedure and further to the hearing on 28 June 2023,

– the Raad van bestuur van de Sociale verzekeringsbank, by C. Speear, W. van den Berg and M. Van der Ent-Eltink, acting as advisors,