CELEX: C1997/009/14
Language: en
Date: 1997-01-11 00:00:00
Title: JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Fifth Chamber) of 7 November 1996 in Case C-77/95 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht, Bremen): Bruna-Alessandra Züchner v. Handelskrankenkasse (Ersatzkasse) Bremen (Equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security - Directive 79/7/EEC - Working population)

No C 9/8              LJN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                           . . 97
1 . Declares that, by failing to adopt within the period                 person who undertakes, as an unremunerated activity, the
      laid down the laws, regulations and administrative                 care of his or her handicapped spouse, whatever the extent
      provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive              of that activity and the competence required in order to
      91 /263/EEC of 29 April 1991 on the approximation                  perform it, where the person in question did not, in order
      of the laws of the Member States concerning                        to do so, abandon an occupational activity or interrupt
      telecommunications terminal equipment, including the               efforts to find employment.
      mutual recognition of their conformity, the Grand
      Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its                       (') OJ No C 174, 8 . 7. 1995 , p . 2 .
      obligations pursuant to the Directive and in particular            ( 2 ) OJ No L 6 , 10 . 1 . 1979, p . 24 .
      under Article 1 7 thereof.
2 . Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the
      costs.
f 1 ) OJ No C 254, 10 . 9 . 1994, p . 10 .
( 2 ) OJ No L 128 , 23 . 5 . 1991 , p . 1 .
                                                                                          JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                                                                                                     ( Sixth Chamber)
                                                                                                   of 7 November 1996
                                                                         in      Case C-262/95 : Commission of the European
                JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                             Communities v. Federal Republic of Germany ( J )
                            (Fifth Chamber)
                                                                         (Failure to fulfil obligations — Transposition of Directives
                        of 7 November 1996                               82/1 76/EEC, 83/513/EEC, 84/156/EEC, 84/491/EEC and
in Case C-77/95 (reference for a preliminary ruling from                 86/280ZEEC on the discharge of certain dangerous
the Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht, Bremen): Bruna­                                  substances into the aquatic environment)
Alessandra Ziichner v. Handelskrankenkasse (Ersatzkasse )                                                ( 97/C 9/ 15 )
                                Bremen ( 1 )
(Equal treatment for men and women in matters of social
    security — Directive 79/7ZEEC — Working population)                                    (Language of the case: German)
                               ( 97/C 9/ 14 )
                                                                            (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be
                 (Language of the case: German)                                      published in the European Court Reports)
   (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be
           published in the European Court Reports)                      In      Case    C-262/95 :        Commission   of the    European
                                                                         Communities         (Agent:       Gotz zur Hausen )   v.   Federal
                                                                         Republic of Germany ( Agent: Ernst Roder) — application
In Case C-77/95 : reference to the Court pursuant to                     for a declaration that, by not adopting the necessary
Article 177 of the EC Treaty from the Hanseatisches                      measures to comply with:
Oberlandesgericht ( Higher Regional Court), Bremen
( Germany ), for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings
pending before that court between Bruna-Alessandra                       — Council Directive 82/ 1 76/EEC of 22 March 1982 on
Ziichner v. Handelskrankenkasse ( Ersatzkasse ) Bremen —                        limit values and quality objectives for mercury
on the interpretation of Council Directive 79/7/EEC of                          discharges by the chlor-alkali electrolysis industry ( 2 ),
 19 December 1978 on the progressive implementation of
the principle of equal treatment for men and women in
matters of social security ( 2 ), and of the principles of               — Council Directive 83/513/EEC of 26 September 1983
Community law governing the liability of public                                 on limit values and quality objectives for cadmium
authorities — the Court ( Fifth Chamber), composed of: L.                       discharges ( 3 ),
Sevon, President of Chamber, acting for the President of
the Fifth Chamber ( Rapporteur ), C. Gulmann, D. A. O.
Edward, J. -P. Puissochet and P. Jann, Judges; D. Ruiz­                  — Council Directive 84/ 156/EEC of 8 March 1984 on
Jarabo Colomer, Advocate-General; H. A. Riihl, Principal                        limit values and quality objectives for mercury
Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on                       discharges by sectors other than the chlor-alkali
7 November 1996 , in which it has ruled :
                                                                                electrolysis industry (4 ),
Article 2 of Council Directive 79/7/EEC of 19 December
 1978 on the progressive implementation of the principle                 — Council Directive 84/491 /EEC of 9 October 1984 on
of equal treatment for men and women in matters of                              limit values and quality objectives for discharges of
social security must be interpreted as not covering a                           hexachlorocyclohexane ( 5 ), and