The person involved is a participant in the 1994 early retirement scheme introduced under EU Council regulation 2079/92, which she entered in joint management with her husband.
It is a requirement of the Council Regulation that any national retirement pension to which a scheme participant or his or her spouse or partner in a joint management situation becomes entitled must be deducted from the early retirement pension. The husband of the person named was in receipt of a contributory old age pension before she joined the early retirement scheme and in accordance with the regulation this must be deducted from the early retirement pension.