62019CJ0726_SUM
Case C‑726/19
Instituto Madrileño de Investigación y Desarrollo Rural, Agrario y Alimentario
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(Request for a preliminary rulingfrom the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid)
Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 3 June 2021
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Directive 1999/70/EC – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Clause 5 – Applicability – Concept of ‘successive fixed-term employment contracts or relationships’ – Fixed-term employment contracts in the public sector – Measures to prevent and penalise abuse resulting from the use of successive fixed-term employment contracts or relationships – Concept of ‘objective reasons’ justifying such contracts – Equivalent legal measures – Obligation to interpret national law in conformity with EU law – Economic crisis)
Social policy – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Directive 1999/70 – Measures to prevent abuse of successive fixed-term employment contracts – Successive fixed-term employment contracts or relationships – Concept
(Council Directive 1999/70, Annex, clauses 3(1) and 5(1))
(see paragraphs 26-32, 35-40)
Social policy – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Directive 1999/70 – Measures to prevent abuse of successive fixed-term employment contracts
(Council Directive 1999/70, Art. 2, first para., and Annex, clause 5(1) and (2))
(see paragraphs 43-51)
Social policy – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Directive 1999/70 – Measures to prevent abuse of successive fixed-term employment contracts – Objective reasons liable to justify the renewal of such contracts
[Council Directive 1999/70, Annex, clause 5(1)(a)]
(see paragraphs 55-60, 62-65, 67-69, 72-77, 88, operative part 1)
Social policy – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Directive 1999/70 – Measures to prevent abuse of successive fixed-term employment contracts – No direct effect of the relevant provision – No obligation for a national court to disapply a provision of its national law contrary to that provision – Obligation for the national court to interpret national law in a manner consistent with EU law
(Art. 288, third para., TFEU; Council Directive 1999/70, Annex, clause 5(1))
(see paragraphs 79-87)
Social policy – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Directive 1999/70 – Measures to prevent abuse of successive fixed-term employment contracts
(Council Directive 1999/70, Annex, clause 5(1))
(see paragraphs 91-93, operative part 2)
See the text of the decision.