CELEX: 62018CN0171
Language: en
Date: 2018-03-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-171/18: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Appeal (United Kingdom) made on 5 March 2018 — Safeway Ltd v Andrew Richard Newton, Safeway Pension Trustees Ltd

4.6.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 190/8
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Appeal (United Kingdom) made on 5 March 2018 — Safeway Ltd v Andrew Richard Newton, Safeway Pension Trustees Ltd
   (Case C-171/18)
   (2018/C 190/10)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Referring court
   
   Court of Appeal
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Safeway Ltd
   
      Defendants: Andrew Richard Newton, Safeway Pension Trustees Ltd
   
      Question referred
   
   Where the rules of a pension scheme confer a power, as a matter of domestic law, upon the amendment of its Trust deed, to reduce retrospectively the value of both men’s and women’s accrued pension rights for a period between the date of a written announcement of intended changes to the scheme and the date when the Trust deed is actually amended, does Article 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (previously and at the material time Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome) require both men’s and women’s accrued pension rights to be treated as indefeasible during that period, in the sense that their pension rights are protected from retrospective reduction by the use of the domestic law power?