CELEX: 62004CJ0205
Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations
Freedom of movement for workers
Failure to take account of seniority and professional experience acquired in the public service of other Member States
Article 39 EC
Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68

Failure by a Member State to fulfil obligations – Article 39 EC and Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 of the Council
of 15 October 1968 on freedom of movement for workers within the Community (OJ English Special Edition, 1968 (II), p. 475)
– Access to the Spanish civil service – Obligation to recognise, for financial purposes, periods of employment by Community
citizens in the civil service of another Member State
Operative part:
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by failing to adopt legislative provisions which expressly provide, in respect of the Spanish civil service,
for account to be taken, for financial purposes, of previous periods of employment in the public service of another Member
State, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 39 EC and Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No
1612/68 of the Council of 15 October 1968 on freedom of movement for workers within the Community;
2.
Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.