CELEX: 62015CN0423
Language: en
Date: 2015-07-31 00:00:00
Title: Case C-423/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesarbeitsgericht (Germany) lodged on 31 July 2015 — Nils-Johannes Kratzer v R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG

28.9.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 320/21
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesarbeitsgericht (Germany) lodged on 31 July 2015 — Nils-Johannes Kratzer v R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG
   (Case C-423/15)
   (2015/C 320/29)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Bundesarbeitsgericht
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Nils-Johannes Kratzer
   
      Defendant: R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               On a proper interpretation of Article 3(1)(a) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (1) and Article 14(1)(a) of Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast) (2), does a person who, as is clear from his application, is seeking not recruitment and employment but merely the status of applicant in order to bring claims for compensation also qualify as seeking ‘access to employment, to self-employment or to occupation’?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If the answer to the first question is in the affirmative:
            
         Can a situation in which the status of applicant was obtained not with a view to recruitment and employment but for the purpose of claiming compensation be considered as an abuse of rights under EU law?
   
      (1)  OJ 2000 L 303, p. 16.
   
      (2)  OJ 2006 L 204, p. 23.