CELEX: 62012CB0511
Language: en
Date: 2014-04-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-511/12: Order of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 10 April 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Central Administraivo Norte — Portugal) — Joaquim Fernando Macedo Maia and Others v Fundo de Garantia Salarial, IP (Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Request for a preliminary ruling — Directive 80/987/EEC — Directive 2002/74/EC — Protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer — Guarantee institutions — Limitation on the payment obligation of the guarantee institution — Salary claims falling due more than six months before the commencement of legal proceedings seeking a declaration of the employer’s insolvency)

11.8.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 261/2
            
         Order of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 10 April 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Central Administraivo Norte — Portugal) — Joaquim Fernando Macedo Maia and Others v Fundo de Garantia Salarial, IP
   (Case C-511/12) (1)
   
   ((Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice - Request for a preliminary ruling - Directive 80/987/EEC - Directive 2002/74/EC - Protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer - Guarantee institutions - Limitation on the payment obligation of the guarantee institution - Salary claims falling due more than six months before the commencement of legal proceedings seeking a declaration of the employer’s insolvency))
   2014/C 261/02
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal Central Administraivo Norte
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Joaquim Fernando Macedo Maia, António Pereira Teixeira, António Joaquim Moreira David, Joaquim Albino Moreira David
   
      Defendant: Fundo de Garantia Salarial, IP
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   Council Directive 80/987/EEC of 20 October 1980 relating to the protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer, as amended by Directive 2002/74/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 23 September 2002, must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which does not guarantee salary claims falling due more than six months preceding the initiation of insolvency proceedings against the employer, even though the employees brought, before the beginning of that period, legal proceedings against their employer with a view to obtaining a judicial determination of the amount outstanding and an enforcement order to recover those sums.
   
      (1)  OJ C 26, 26.1.2013.