Luxembourg, 06/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The fifth Chamber of the European Court of Justice has ruled that the German authorities must take account of the years devoted to the education of a child, spent in another Member State, when calculating pensions. The Bundessozialgericht will thus be able to rule in favour of Ms. Ursula Elsen, who, for the calculation of her pension, was refused the years she spent in France as housewife under the pretext that she was then living abroad. For the Court, the German authorities breached the provisions of European legislation on the social security of workers (the German law allows for account to be taken of years spent with a child in the latter's first eleven years of life when calculating pensions).