CELEX: 62019CA0824
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-824/19: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 21 October 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Varhoven administrativen sad — Bulgaria) — TC, UB v Komisia za zashtita ot diskriminatsia, VA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Equal treatment in employment and occupation — Directive 2000/78/EC — Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of disability — Article 2(2)(a) — Article 4(1) — Article 5 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Articles 21 and 26 — United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities — Duties of juror in criminal proceedings — Blind person — Total exclusion from participation in criminal proceedings)

13.12.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 502/5
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 21 October 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Varhoven administrativen sad — Bulgaria) — TC, UB v Komisia za zashtita ot diskriminatsia, VA
      (Case C-824/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Social policy - Equal treatment in employment and occupation - Directive 2000/78/EC - Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of disability - Article 2(2)(a) - Article 4(1) - Article 5 - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Articles 21 and 26 - United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Duties of juror in criminal proceedings - Blind person - Total exclusion from participation in criminal proceedings)
      (2021/C 502/07)
      Language of the case: Bulgarian
      
         Referring court
      
      Varhoven administrativen sad
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: TC, UB
      
         Defendants: Komisia za zashtita ot diskriminatsia, VA
      
         Interested party: Varhovna administrativna prokuratura
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 2(2)(a) and Article 4(1) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, read in the light of Articles 21 and 26 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, approved on behalf of the European Community by Council Decision 2010/48/EC of 26 November 2009, must be interpreted as meaning that they preclude that a blind person be totally deprived of any possibility of performing the duties of a juror in criminal proceedings.
      
         (1)  OJ C 27, 27.1.2020.