Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:2018:994
Date: 2018-12-06
Language of the case: Italian
Subject matter: Social Policy
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Italy

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte d’Appello di Trento (Italy) lodged on 14 August 2017 — Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca — MIUR v Fabio Rossato, Conservatorio di Musica F.A. Bonporti (Case C-494/17) Language of the case: Italian Referring court Corte d’Appello di Trento Parties to the main proceedings Appellant: Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca — MIUR Cross-appellant: Fabio Rossato Respondent: Conservatorio di Musica F.A. Bonporti Question referred Must clause 5(1) of the Framework Agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP, annexed to Council Directive 1999/70/EC 1 of 28 June 1999, be interpreted as precluding the application of Article 1(95), (131) and (132) of Law No 107 of 2015 of the Italian State, which provides for the conversion of temporary teachers’ fixed-term contracts into contracts of indefinite duration with respect to the future, without retroactive effect and without compensation for damage, as measures that are proportionate, sufficiently effective and a sufficient deterrent to ensure that the measures laid down in the Framework Agreement are fully effective as regards breach of the agreement resulting from abusive repeated renewal of fixed-term contracts during the period prior to that in which the measures set out in the provisions in question are intended to have legal effect? ____________ 1 Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP (OJ 1999 L 175, p. 43).