CELEX: 62014CN0222
Language: en
Date: 2014-05-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-222/14: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Simvoulio tis Epikratias (Council of State) lodged on 7 May 2014  — Konstantinos Maistrellis v Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human Rights

21.7.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 235/8
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Simvoulio tis Epikratias (Council of State) lodged on 7 May 2014 — Konstantinos Maistrellis v Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human Rights
   (Case C-222/14)
   2014/C 235/11
   Language of the case: Greek
   
      Referring court
   
   Simvoulio tis Epikratias (Council of State)
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Konstantinos Maistrellis
   
      Defendant: Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human Rights
   
      Question referred
   
   Must the provisions of Directive 96/34/EC (1) and Directive 2006/54/EC (2), in so far as they are applicable, be interpreted as precluding national regulations, such as the contested provision of the third sentence of Article 53(3) of Law 3528/2007, providing that if the civil servant’s wife does not work or exercise any profession the male spouse is not entitled to parental leave, unless it is considered that due to a serious illness or injury the wife is unable to meet the needs related to the upbringing of the child?
   
      (1)  Council Directive 96/34/EC of 3 June 1996 on the framework agreement on parental leave concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC (OJ 1996 L 145, p. 4).
   
      (2)  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) (OJ 2006 L 204, p. 23).