CELEX: 62013CA0529
Language: en
Date: 2015-01-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-529/13: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 21 January 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Austria) — Georg Felber v Bundesministerin für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 2000/78/EC — Article 2(1) and (2)(a) and Article 6(1) and (2) — Difference of treatment on grounds of age — Civil service — Pension scheme — National legislation precluding the taking into account of periods of school education completed before the age of 18)

30.3.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 107/10
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 21 January 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Austria) — Georg Felber v Bundesministerin für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur
      (Case C-529/13) (1)
      
      ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Social policy - Directive 2000/78/EC - Article 2(1) and (2)(a) and Article 6(1) and (2) - Difference of treatment on grounds of age - Civil service - Pension scheme - National legislation precluding the taking into account of periods of school education completed before the age of 18))
      (2015/C 107/12)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Verwaltungsgerichtshof
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Georg Felber
      
         Defendant: Bundesministerin für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 2(1) and (2)(a) and Article 6(1) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which excludes the crediting of periods of school education completed by a civil servant before the age of 18 for the purpose of the grant of pension entitlement and the calculation of the amount of his retirement pension, in so far as that legislation is objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim relating to employment policy and labour market policy and constitutes an appropriate and necessary means of achieving that aim.
      
         (1)  OJ C 15, 18.1.2014.