1.

Must Article 4 of Regulation No 883/2004/EC (1), Article 24 of Directive 2004/38/EC (2) and Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 (3), which enshrine the principle of equal treatment of EU citizens, be interpreted as precluding national legislation which makes the grant of family allowances subject to the condition that the child concerned, being an EU citizen, must hold a residence permit in the competent Member State in which he or she actually resides with his or her parents, thereby excluding from the grant of those allowances the parent of that child, who is also a national of a Member State of the European Union but does not hold (or no longer holds) such a residence permit, even though he or she actually resides in that Member State and pursues an economic activity there (in this case as a paid employee) and thereby contributes to the funding of that Member State’s social policies?

2.

In the event that the first question is answered in the affirmative, is such unequal treatment, which is contrary to Article 4 of Regulation No 883/2004/EC, Article 24 of Directive 2004/38/EC and Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 492/2011, adequately corrected by the fact that another provision of the legislation in question exempts the child from the requirement to hold a residence permit, thereby enabling the same parent to receive family allowances for a maximum of six months from the parent’s entry into the territory of the Member State concerned?