Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 11 December 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour du travail de Liège — Belgium) — Ville de Verviers v J

(Case C-483/19) ¹

(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court — Social policy — Directive 1999/70/EC — Framework Agreement, concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP regarding fixed-term work — Clause 2 — Scope of the Framework Agreement — Possibility for Member States to exclude initial vocational training relationships and apprenticeship schemes and employment contracts and relationships which have been concluded within the framework of a specific public or publicly supported training, integration and vocational retraining programme — Consequences)

Language of the case: French

Referring court

Cour du travail de Liège

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Ville de Verviers

Defendant: J

Operative part of the order

Clause 2(2)(b) of the framework agreement on fixed-term work annexed to Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP must be interpreted as not precluding that a national legislature which, in accordance with the power granted to it under that provision, excluded from the scope of the national legislation transposing Directive 1999/70 and the framework agreement a certain category of contracts, be exempted from adopting national measures so as to provide a guarantee to workers covered by that category of contract that the objectives pursued by the framework agreement will be respected.

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¹ OJ C 288, 26.8.2019.