Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 14 February 1989. # Wilhelm Schmitt v Bundesversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Sozialgericht Hamburg - Germany. # Article 51 of the EEC Treaty - Possibility of back-paying contributions to a pension insurance scheme. # Case 29/88.

Opinion of the Advocate-General

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Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered his Opinion on 14 February 1989 . (*) He proposed that the Court should rule that :

Article 51 of the EEC Treaty and Regulation No 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 are not applicable for the purpose of determining the conditions of affiliation to a social security scheme, whether compulsory or voluntary .

(*) Original language : French .