Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:2006:571
Date: 2006-09-14
Language of the case: Swedish
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Education, vocational training and youth;Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties;Free movement of workers;Anti-discrimination;Non-discrimination on grounds of nationality
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Sweden

Summary of the Judgment Freedom of movement for persons – Workers – Access to vocational training (Art. 39 EC) Community law does not preclude national legislation which organises, on a provisional basis, training courses intended in the short term to meet the need for qualified teachers in a State from requiring that candidates for that training be employed in a school in that State, provided, however, that the manner in which that legislation is applied does not lead to the exclusion, as a matter of principle, of all applications made by teachers who are not employed in such a school without prior individual assessment of the merits of those applications in the light, inter alia, of the aptitude of the person concerned, and the possibility of monitoring the practical part of the training received or possibly of exempting that person from it. (see para. 49, operative part)