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Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 21 : paragraphs 45, 46, 64, 66, 68, 83
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 23 : paragraphs 45, 46, 64, 66
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 24 : paragraph 45
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 26 : paragraphs 45, 68, 83
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 33 : paragraphs 45, 46, 64, 66
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 34 : paragraphs 45, 46, 64, 66, 68, 83
• TFEU, Article 8 : paragraphs 45, 46, 64, 66
• TFEU, Article 10 : paragraphs 45, 68, 83
• TFEU, Article 157 : paragraphs 45, 46, 64, 66
• TFEU, Article 216 -P2 : paragraph 71
• TFEU, Article 267 : paragraph 84
• TEU, Article 3 : paragraphs 45, 46, 64, 66
• Directive 92/85 : paragraphs 56, 58, 59
• Directive 92/85 -A02 : paragraph 13
• Directive 92/85 -A08 : paragraph 14
• Directive 2000/78 : paragraphs 16, 68, 70, 74 - 77, 80, 82, 90, 91
• Directive 2000/78 -A01 : paragraphs 21, 69
• Directive 2000/78 -A02 : paragraph 22
• Directive 2000/78 -A03 : paragraph 45
• Directive 2000/78 -A03P1 : paragraph 45
• Directive 2000/78 -A03P1LC : paragraphs 23, 69
• Directive 2000/78 -A05 : paragraphs 24, 45
• Directive 2006/54 : paragraphs 1, 46, 47, 56, 60, 61, 64, 65, 67
• Directive 2006/54 -A01L2LB : paragraph 16
• Directive 2006/54 -A02 : paragraph 17
• Directive 2006/54 -A02P1LA : paragraphs 50, 51, 54, 55
• Directive 2006/54 -A02P1LB : paragraphs 50, 51, 54, 55
• Directive 2006/54 -A02P2LC : paragraphs 50, 56, 59
• Directive 2006/54 -A04 : paragraphs 18, 45, 46, 60, 67
• Directive 2006/54 -A14 : paragraphs 19, 45, 46, 49, 60, 67
• Directive 2006/54 -A16 : paragraphs 20, 62
• Directive 2006/54 -C27 : paragraphs 15, 63
• Decision 2010/48 : paragraph 3
• Decision 2010/48 -N2 : paragraph 89
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -181/73 : paragraph 73
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -12/86 : paragraph 86
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -177/88 : paragraph 51
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -421/92 : paragraph 51
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -1/95 : paragraph 53
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -213/03 : paragraph 86
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -222/04 : paragraph 64
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -13/05 : paragraph 69
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -308/06 : paragraph 84
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -506/06 : paragraph 51
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -123/10 : paragraph 53
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -366/10 : paragraphs 71, 84 - 86
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -320/11 : paragraph 72
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -335/11 : paragraphs 71 - 77
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -7/12 : paragraph 53
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -167/12 : paragraph 58

Operative part

• Interprets : Directive 2000/78
• Interprets : Directive 2006/54
• Interprets : Directive 2006/54 -A04
• Interprets : Directive 2006/54 -A14

Opinion

• EEC Treaty (Rome), Article 118A : point 44
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 21 : points 28, 69, 71, 73, 111
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 23 : points 28, 69, 71, 73
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 26 : points 82, 111
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 33 : points 28, 69, 71
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 34 : points 28, 69, 71, 111
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 51 -P1 : point 71
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 51 -P2 : point 72
  
• TFEU, Article 8 : points 28, 69, 70
  
• TFEU, Article 10 : points 28, 111, 112
  
• TFEU, Article 157 : points 28, 69, 70
  
• TEU, Article 3 : points 28, 69, 70
  
• TEU, Article 3 -P3 : point 70
  
• Directive 76/207 : point 56
  
• Directive 76/207 -A02P3 : point 58
  
• Directive 89/391 -A16P1 : point 5
  
• Directive 92/85 : points 41 - 56, 70, 120
  
• Directive 92/85 -A01 : points 7, 52
  
• Directive 92/85 -A02 : points 8, 9
  
• Directive 92/85 -A02P2LB : point 49
  
• Directive 92/85 -A08 : points 8, 9, 45, 47
  
• Directive 92/85 -A11P2 : point 9
  
• Directive 92/85 -C8 : point 5
  
• Directive 92/85 -C14 : points 6, 45
  
• Directive 2000/78 : points 28, 39, 41, 77 - 81, 91 - 100, 104, 111 - 122
  
• Directive 2000/78 -A01 : point 92
  
• Directive 2000/78 -A03 : points 19, 28
  
• Directive 2000/78 -A03P1 : point 28
  
• Directive 2000/78 -A05 : points 20, 28, 98 - 104, 106, 109
  
• Directive 2000/78 -C20 : points 17, 101, 102
  
• Directive 2000/78 -C21 : points 18, 103
  
• Regulation 261/2004 : point 74
  
• Directive 2006/54 : points 28, 39 - 42, 54, 62, 63, 68 - 70, 73, 76, 120, 122
  
• Directive 2006/54 -A02 : point 12
  
• Directive 2006/54 -A02P1LA : points 13, 55
  
• Directive 2006/54 -A02P1LB : points 13, 55
  
• Directive 2006/54 -A02P2LC : points 13, 55
  
• Directive 2006/54 -A04 : points 14, 28, 60
  
• Directive 2006/54 -A14 : points 15, 28, 60
  
• Directive 2006/54 -A16 : points 16, 65
  
• Directive 2006/54 -C23 : points 10, 55
  
• Directive 2006/54 -C24 : points 10, 55
  
• Directive 2006/54 -C27 : points 11, 65
  
• Decision 2010/48 : points 3, 80
  
• Directive 2010/18 : point 65
  
• Directive 2010/18 -NCL2P1 : point 65
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -149/77 : point 74
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -177/88 : point 57
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -342/93 : point 55
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -411/96 : point 55
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -147/02 : point 55
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -191/03 : points 55, 57
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -13/05 : points 87, 89, 92
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -506/06 : point 44
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -116/06 : point 45
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -506/06 : points 44, 53 - 58
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -402/07 : point 74
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -402/07 : point 74
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -471/08 : point 55
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -236/09 : point 73
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -149/10 : point 70
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -366/10 : point 79
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -400/10 : point 73
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -411/10 : point 71
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -617/10 : point 71
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -335/11 : points 102, 105
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -512/11 : point 55
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -40/11 : point 71
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -59/11 : point 81
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -256/11 : point 73
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -312/11 : point 102
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -320/11 : point 79
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -335/11 : points 79, 88, 90, 92, 95, 102, 106, 107
  
• Court of Justice - Order C -466/11 : point 71
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -131/12 : point 73
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -356/12 : point 97
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -5/12 : point 67
  
• 62012CN0167 : point 1
  
• Court of Justice - Order C -128/12 : point 71
  

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

Information not available

Date of the Opinion

• 26/09/2013

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

18/03/2014

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 142 from 12.05.2014, p.7

Application: OJ C 311 from 13.10.2012, p.5

Name of the parties

Z.

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Eleveld, A.: Jurisprudentie arbeidsrecht 2014 nº 108 (NL)
2. Simon, Denys: Gestation pour autrui, Europe 2014 Mai Com. nº 5 p.14-15 (FR)
3. Gosseries, Philippe: Observations, Journal des tribunaux du travail 2014 p.219-220 (FR)
4. Viganotti, Élisa: Mères porteuses et mères commanditaires : seules les premières ont droit à un congé de maternité, les deuxièmes n’ont droit à rien, Gazette du Palais 2014 nº I Jur. p.15-16 (FR)
5. Skubic, Zoran: Porodniški dopust ob rojstvu otroka, rojenega s pomočjo dogovora o nadomestnem materinstvu, Pravna praksa 2014 nº 15 p.20-21 (SL)
6. Mok, M.R.: Nederlandse jurisprudentie ; Uitspraken in burgerlijke en strafzaken 2014 nº 31 p.4107-4110 (NL)
7. Monéger, Françoise: Gestation pour autrui, congé de maternité et handicap, Revue de droit sanitaire et social 2014 p.478-487 (FR)
8. Broussy, Emmanuelle ; Cassagnabère, Hervé ; Gänser, Christian: Chronique de jurisprudence de la CJUE. Travail - Convention de mère porteuse - Congé lié à la naissance, L'actualité juridique ; droit administratif 2014 p.1153-1154 (FR)
9. Dumitraşcu, Augustina: Curtea de Justiție a Uniunii Europene, Curierul Judiciar 2014 p.286-287 (RO)
10. Finck, Michèle ; Kas, Betül: Surrogacy leave as a matter of EU law: CD and Z, Common Market Law Review 2015, Volume 52, Issue 1, p. 281-298 (EN)
11. De Baere, Geert: Shall I be mother? The prohibition on sex discrimination, the UN Disability Convention, and the right to surrogacy leave under EU law, The Cambridge Law Journal 2015 p.44-48 (EN)
12. Burri, Susanne: Care in Family Relations - The Case of Surrogacy Leave -, The European journal of law reform 2015 p.271-282 (EN)
13. Moreno Pueyo, Manuel José: La prestación de maternidad en los casos de maternidad subrogada. Estado de la cuestión tras los pronunciamientos del TJUE de 18/03/14, Revista española de Derecho del Trabajo 2015 p.287-293 (ES)
14. Kresal, Barbara: Novejša sodna praksa SEU o diskriminaciji na podlagi spola, Podjetje in delo 2015 nº 3-4 p.516-538 (SL)
15. Healy, Connie: Once more with ‘sympathy’ but no resolution for intended mothers: the EU, Ireland and the surrogacy dilemma, The Journal of Social Welfare Law & Family Law 2017 p.504-519 (EN)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

The Equality Tribunal - Ireland

Subject-matter

• Approximation of laws
  
• Social policy
  
• Principles of Union law
  
• Non-discrimination and citizenship of the Union
  
• - non-discrimination
  

Provisions of national law referred to

Employment Equality Acts, 1998 to 2011, sections 2, 6, 8 et 16 Maternity Protection Act, 1994, sections 8, 9 et 22 Adoptive Leave Act, 2005, sections 6, 7 et 15 Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 2005, sections 47, 48, 58 et 59

Provisions of international law referred to

Convention des Nations Unies relative aux droits des personnes handicapées (13/12/2006), art. 5, 6, 27, par. 1, sous b), et 28, par. 2, sous b)

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling
  

Formation of the Court

Grande chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Safjan

Advocate General

Wahl

Language(s) of the Case

• English
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

• English