CELEX: C2004/284/08
Language: en
Date: 2004-11-20 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 30 September 2004 in Case C-319/03 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal administratif de Paris): Serge Briheche v Ministre de l'Intérieur, Ministre de l'Éducation nationale and Ministre de la Justice (Social policy — Equal treatment of men and women — Article 141(4) EC — Directive 76/207/EEC — Conditions of access to public-sector employment — Provisions reserving to widows who have not remarried the benefit of the exemption from the age-limit for obtaining access to that employment)

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 284/4
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   of 30 September 2004
   in Case C-319/03 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal administratif de Paris): Serge Briheche v Ministre de l'Intérieur, Ministre de l'Éducation nationale and Ministre de la Justice (1)
   
   (Social policy - Equal treatment of men and women - Article 141(4) EC - Directive 76/207/EEC - Conditions of access to public-sector employment - Provisions reserving to widows who have not remarried the benefit of the exemption from the age-limit for obtaining access to that employment)
   (2004/C 284/08)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-319/03: reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC from the Tribunal administratif de Paris (France), made by decision of 3 July 2003, received at the Court on 24 July 2003, in the proceedings between Serge Briheche and Ministre de l'Intérieur, Ministre de l'Éducation nationale and Ministre de la Justice — the Court (Second Chamber), composed of: C.W.A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, C. Gulmann, R. Schintgen, F. Macken (Rapporteur) and N. Colneric, Judges; M. Poiares Maduro, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 30 September 2004, in which it has ruled:
   Article 3(1) and Article 2(4) of Council Directive 76/207/EEC of 9 February 1976 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions must be interpreted as meaning that they preclude a national provision, such as that in question in the main proceedings, which reserves the exemption from the age-limit for obtaining access to public-sector employment to widows who have not remarried who are obliged to work, excluding widowers who have not remarried who are in the same situation.
   
      (1)  OJ C 226, 20.9.2003.