CELEX: 62016CA0409
Language: en
Date: 2017-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-409/16: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 18 October 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Symvoulio tis Epikrateias — Greece) — Ypourgos Esoterikon, Ypourgos Ethnikis Pedias kai Thriskevmaton v Maria-Eleni Kalliri (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 76/207/EEC — Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation — Discrimination on the ground of sex — Competition for entry to the police school of a Member State — Law of that state imposing a minimum physical height requirement on all candidates for admission to that competition)

11.12.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 424/10
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 18 October 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Symvoulio tis Epikrateias — Greece) — Ypourgos Esoterikon, Ypourgos Ethnikis Pedias kai Thriskevmaton v Maria-Eleni Kalliri
   (Case C-409/16) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Social policy - Directive 76/207/EEC - Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation - Discrimination on the ground of sex - Competition for entry to the police school of a Member State - Law of that state imposing a minimum physical height requirement on all candidates for admission to that competition))
   (2017/C 424/13)
   Language of the case: Greek
   
      Referring court
   
   Symvoulio tis Epikrateias
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellants: Ypourgos Esoterikon, Ypourgos Ethnikis Pedias kai Thriskevmaton
   
      Defendant: Maria-Eleni Kalliri
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The provisions of Council Directive 76/207/EEC of 9 February 1976 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions, as amended by Directive 2002/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2002, must be interpreted as precluding a law of a Member State, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which makes candidates’ admission to the competition for entry to the police school of that Member State subject, whatever their sex, to a requirement that they are of a physical height of at least 1,70 m, since that law works to the disadvantage of a far greater number of women compared with men and that law does not appear to be either appropriate or necessary to achieve the legitimate objective that it pursues, which it is for the national court to determine.
   
      (1)  OJ C 392, 24.10.2016.