CELEX: C2004/094/01
Language: en
Date: 2004-04-17 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) 4 March 2004 In Joined Cases C-19/01, C-50/01 and C-84/01 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale di Pisa, the Tribunale di Siena and the Corte Suprema di Cassazione): Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) v Alberto Barsotti and Others, Milena Castellani v Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS), Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) v Anna Maria Venturi

17.4.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 94/1
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   4 March 2004
   In Joined Cases C-19/01, C-50/01 and C-84/01 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale di Pisa, the Tribunale di Siena and the Corte Suprema di Cassazione): Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) v Alberto Barsotti and Others, Milena Castellani v Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS), Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) v Anna Maria Venturi (1)
   
   (Social policy - Protection of employees in the event of their employer's insolvency - Directive 80/987/EEC - Limitation of liability of the guarantee institutions - Ceiling to the liability - Part payments by the employer - Social objective of the directive)
   (2004/C 94/01)
   Language of the case: Italian
   In Joined Cases C-19/01, C-50/01 and C-84/01: References to the Court under Article 234 EC by, respectively, the Tribunale di Pisa (Italy), the Tribunale di Siena (Italy) and the Corte Suprema di Cassazione (Italy) for preliminary rulings in the proceedings pending before those courts between Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) and Alberto Barsotti and Others (C-19/01), and between Milena Castellani and Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) (C-50/01), and between Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) and Anna Maria Venturi (C-84/01), on the interpretation of Council Directive 80/987/EEC of 20 October 1980 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer (OJ 1980 L 283, p. 23), the Court (Second Chamber), composed of: V. Skouris, acting for the President of the Second Chamber, R. Schintgen and N. Colneric (Rapporteur), Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate General; L. Hewlett, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 23 October 2003, in which it has ruled:
   Article 3(1) and the first subparagraph of Article 4(3) of Council Directive 80/987/EEC of 20 October 1980 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer are to be interpreted as meaning that they do not allow a Member State to limit the liability of the guarantee institutions to a sum which covers the basic needs of the employees concerned and from which are to be deducted payments made by the employer during the period covered by the guarantee.
   
      (1)  OJ C 79 of 10.03.2001,
   
      OJ C 95 of 24.03.2001 and
   
      OJ C 118 of 21.04.2001.