CELEX: 62014CA0317
Language: en
Date: 2015-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-317/14: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 5 February 2015 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Article 45 TFEU — Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 — Freedom of movement for workers — Access to employment — Local public service — Linguistic knowledge — Means of proof)

30.3.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 107/14
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 5 February 2015 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium
      (Case C-317/14) (1)
      
      ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Article 45 TFEU - Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 - Freedom of movement for workers - Access to employment - Local public service - Linguistic knowledge - Means of proof))
      (2015/C 107/18)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: European Commission (represented by: J. Enegren and D. Martin, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: L. Van den Broeck, J. Van Holm and M. Jacobs, acting as Agents)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1)
               
               
                  Declares that by requiring candidates for posts in the local services established in the French-speaking or German-speaking regions, whose diplomas or certificates do not show that they were educated in the language concerned, to provide evidence of their linguistic knowledge by means of one particular type of certificate, issued only by one particular Belgian body following an examination conducted by that body in Belgium, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 45 TFEU and Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on freedom of movement for workers within the Union;
               
            
                  2)
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of the Belgium to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 303, 8.9.2014.