Case C-310/10: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 7 July 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Bacău (Romania)) — Ministerul Justiției și Libertăților Cetățenești v Ștefan Agafiței and Others (Salary rights of judges — Discrimination on grounds of membership of a socio-professional category or place of work — Conditions for compensation for the harm suffered — Directives 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC — Inapplicability — Inadmissibility of the reference for a preliminary ruling)
Date: 2011-07-07
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: approximation of laws, employment policy, equal pay, equal treatment, interpretation of the law








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10.9.2011   


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Official Journal of the European Union


C 269/17





Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 7 July 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Bacău (Romania)) — Ministerul Justiției și Libertăților Cetățenești v Ștefan Agafiței and Others
(Case C-310/10) (1)

(Salary rights of judges - Discrimination on grounds of membership of a socio-professional category or place of work - Conditions for compensation for the harm suffered - Directives 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC - Inapplicability - Inadmissibility of the reference for a preliminary ruling)
2011/C 269/27
Language of the case: Romanian

Referring court

Curtea de Apel Bacău

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Ministerul Justiției și Libertăților Cetățenești

Defendants: Ștefan Agafiței, Raluca Apetroaei, Marcel Bărbieru, Sorin Budeanu, Luminița Chiagă, Mihaela Crăciun, Sorin-Vasile Curpăn, Mihaela Dabija, Mia-Cristina Damian, Sorina Danalache, Oana-Alina Dogaru, Geanina Dorneanu, Adina-Cătălina Galavan, Gabriel Grancea, Mădălina Radu (Hobjilă), Nicolae Cătălin Iacobuț, Roxana Lăcătușu, Sergiu Lupașcu, Smaranda Maftei, Silvia Mărmureanu, Maria Oborocianu, Simona Panfil, Oana-Georgeta Pânzaru, Laurențiu Păduraru, Elena Pîrjol-Năstase, Ioana Pocovnicu, Alina Pușcașu, Cezar Ștefănescu, Roxana Ștefănescu, Ciprian Țimiraș, Cristina Vintilă

Re:

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Curtea de Apel Bacău — Interpretation of Article 15 of Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin (OJ 2000 L 180, p. 22) — Interpretation of Article 17 of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (OJ 2000 L 303, p. 16) — National legislation providing for a difference in treatment as regards the salary rights of judges and public prosecutors, justified in terms of the specialised nature of the work of the public prosecutors attached to the D.N.A. (National Anti-Corruption Directorate) and the D.I.I.C.O.T. (Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism) — Possible discrimination, in the absence of objective criteria linked to a specific requirement of higher qualifications — Provisions of national law transposing a directive declared unconstitutional in so far as they enable the national courts to annul legislative acts regarded as discriminatory and, by way of judicial remedy, to grant salary rights for which no provision has been made by statute

Operative part of the judgment

The reference for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Bacău (Romania) is inadmissible.


(1)  OJ C 234, 28.8.2010.