Social occupational pension schemes, i.e. compulsory pension schemes that are the result of collective bargaining, fulfil an important social function. At the same time, they seem to conflict with some fundamental single market tenets, such as the European Union (EU) Single Market’s four fundamental freedoms and competition law principles. In this respect, occupational pension schemes in the Member States seem to embody the inherent tensions contained within the EU’s social market economy: a clash between market and social values. This article examines the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and EU legislation on occupational pensions, in order to examine whether one of the two values can be identified as dominant. Specifically, it will answer the question whether EU law and CJEU case law can be said to support social occupational pensions, or whether internal market objectives prevail.

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社会养老金和市场价值：冲突？

社会职业养老金计划，即集体谈判的结果，是强制性养老金计划，具有重要的社会功能。同时，它们似乎与某些基本的单一市场原则相抵触，例如欧盟（EU）单一市场的四个基本自由和竞争法原则。在这方面，成员国的职业养老金计划似乎体现了欧盟社会市场经济中所固有的内在张力：市场价值与社会价值之间的冲突。本文研究了欧盟法院（CJEU）的判例法和欧盟有关职业养老金的立法，以检验是否可以将这两个价值之一确定为主导。特别，