Reports of Cases

2011 I-06919

Subject-matter

Reference for a preliminary ruling – Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt am Main – Interpretation of Art. 6 of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (OJ 2000 L 303, p. 16) – Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age – National rules providing for automatic retirement of civil servants at 65 – Legitimate objectives justifying differences of treatment on grounds of age

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 15 -P1 : paragraph 62
• TFEU, Article 267 : paragraph 30
• Directive 2000/78 : paragraphs 32, 62, 75
• Directive 2000/78 -A02P1 : paragraphs 6, 34
• Directive 2000/78 -A02P2LA : paragraph 6
• Directive 2000/78 -A03 : paragraph 7
• Directive 2000/78 -A03P1LC : paragraph 34
• Directive 2000/78 -A06P1 : paragraphs 8, 35, 39, 41, 44, 45, 52, 55, 69, 74, 78
• Directive 2000/78 -A06P1LA : paragraph 33
• Directive 2000/78 -A06P2 : paragraph 8
• Directive 2000/78 -C8 : paragraphs 3, 63
• Directive 2000/78 -C9 : paragraphs 3, 63
• Directive 2000/78 -C11 : paragraphs 3, 63
• Directive 2000/78 -C15 : paragraph 79
• Directive 2000/78 -C25 : paragraphs 4, 63, 96
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -222/04 : paragraph 30
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -411/05 : paragraphs 39, 61, 65, 66
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -169/07 : paragraph 85
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -388/07 : paragraphs 52, 77, 78
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -341/08 : paragraphs 39, 46, 58, 85, 86
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -45/09 : paragraphs 39, 45, 65, 66
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -250/09 : paragraphs 46, 49, 58
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -188/10 : paragraph 72

Operative part

• Interprets : Directive 2000/78

Opinion

Information not available

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 02/04/2010

Date of the Opinion

Information not available

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

21/07/2011

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Applications: OJ C 161 from 19.06.2010, p.24

Judgment: OJ C 269 from 10.09.2011, p.14

Name of the parties

Fuchs and Köhler

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Driguez, Laetitia: Différence de traitement en raison de l'âge, Europe 2011 Octobre Comm. nº 10 p.41-42 (FR)
2. Houser, Matthieu: Mise à la retraite d'office et principe de non-discrimination, L'actualité juridique ; droit administratif 2011 p.2303-2307 (FR)
3. Mok, M.R.: Nederlandse jurisprudentie ; Uitspraken in burgerlijke en strafzaken 2011 nº 522 (NL)
4. Lhernould, Jean-Philippe: Clauses guillotine : la Cour de justice peaufine l'édit de tolérance, Revue de jurisprudence sociale 2011 p.758-759 (FR)
5. Aubert, Michel ; Broussy, Emmanuelle ; Donnat, Francis: Chronique de jurisprudence de la CJUE. Travail - Discrimination en fonction de l'âge, L'actualité juridique ; droit administratif 2011 p.2347-2348 (FR)
6. Tinç, Mehmet: Jurisprudence de la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne en matière de droits fondamentaux. CJUE, Fuchs et Köhler, 21 juillet 2011, C-159/10 et C-160/10, L'Europe des libertés: revue d'actualité juridique 2011 nº 36 p.62-63 (FR)
7. Rolin, Frédérique: Quelques précisions quant à la nature et au régime de justification des discriminations fondées sur l’âge, Revue des affaires européennes 2011 p.609-614 (FR)
8. Wachter, Gustav: Judikatur des EuGH zur Altersdiskriminierung im Jahre 2011, Altersdiskriminierung, Jahrbuch 2012 (Ed. Neuer wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Wien) 2012 p.69-70 (DE)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt am Main - Germany

Subject-matter

• Social policy
  

Provisions of national law referred to

Hessisches Beamtengesetz (HBG), Paragraph 50, Abs. 1 und 3

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling
  

Formation of the Court

deuxième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Lindh

Advocate General

Bot

Language(s) of the Case

• German
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

Information not available