CELEX: C2000/233/15
Language: en
Date: 2000-08-12 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 23 May 2000 in Case C-106/98 P: Comité d'entreprise de la Société française de production and Others v Commission of the European Communities (Appeal — Natural and legal persons — Directly and individually concerned by the measure — State aid — Decision declaring aid incompatible with the common market — Trade unions and works councils)

C 233/8                  EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                     12.8.2000
mann, J.-P. Puissochet, G. Hirsch, P. Jann and H. Ragnemalm                the Court, composed of: G.C. Rodrı́guez Iglesias, President,
(Rapporteur), Judges; S. Alber, Advocate General; L. Hewlett,              D.A.O. Edward, L. Sevón and R. Schintgen (Rapporteur) (Presi-
Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on                  dents of Chambers), P.J.G. Kapteyn, C. Gulmann, J.-P. Puisso-
23 May 2000, in which it has ruled:                                        chet, G. Hirsch, P. Jann, H. Ragnemalm and M. Wathelet,
                                                                           Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; H. von
The derogation for which Article 7(1) (a) of Council Directive             Holstein, Deputy Registrar, has given a judgment on 23 May
79/7/EEC of 19 December 1978 on the progressive implementation             2000, in which it:
of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in matters of
social security provides must be interpreted as not applying to a          1.   Dismisses the appeal;
benefit such as the early old-age pension on account of incapacity for
work for which a qualifying age which differs according to sex was
introduced into national legislation after expiry of the period            2.   Orders the works council of SFP, Syndicat National de
prescribed for transposition of that directive.                                 Radiodiffusion et de Télévision CGT, Syndicat Unifié de Radio
                                                                                et de Télévision CFDT, Syndicat National Force Ouvrière de
                                                                                Radiodiffusion et de Télévision and Syndicat National de
(1) OJ C 209 of 4.7.1998.                                                       l’Encadrement Audiovisuel CFE-CGC to pay the costs.
                                                                           (1) OJ C 209 of 4.7.1998.
                  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                           of 23 May 2000
in Case C-106/98 P: Comité d’entreprise de la Société
française de production and Others v Commission of the
                    European Communities (1)
                                                                                           JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
(Appeal — Natural and legal persons — Directly and
individually concerned by the measure — State aid —                                                of 23 May 2000
Decision declaring aid incompatible with the common market
              — Trade unions and works councils)
                                                                           in Case C-196/98 (reference for a preliminary ruling
                                                                           from the Social Security Commissioner): Regina Virginia
                           (2000/C 233/15)
                                                                           Hepple and Others v Adjudication Officer, Adjudication
                                                                                         Officer v Anna Stec and Others (1)
                     (Language of the case: French)
                                                                           (Directive 79/7/EEC — Equal treatment for men and women
                                                                           in matters of social security — Benefits under an accident
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
                                                                           at work and occupational disease insurance scheme —
                    in the European Court Reports)
                                                                                      Introduction of a link to retirement age)
In Case C-106/98 P: Comité d’entreprise de la Société française
de production, having its registered office in Bry-sur-Marne                                       (2000/C 233/16)
(France), Syndicat national de radiodiffusion et de télévision
CGT (SNRT-CGT), having its registered office in Paris, Syndicat
unifié de radio et de télévision CFDT (SURT-CFDT), having its                                 (Language of the case: English)
registered office in Paris, Syndicat national Force ouvrière de
radiodiffusion et de télévision, having its registered office in
Paris, Syndicat national de l’encadrement audiovisuel CFE-                 In Case C-196/98: reference to the Court under Article 177 of
CGC (SNEA-CFE-CGC), having its registered office in Paris,                 the EC Treaty (now Article 234 EC) from the Social Security
represented by H. Masse-Dessen, lawyer with right of audience              Commissioner, United Kingdom, for a preliminary ruling in
before the French Conseil d’État and Cour de Cassation, with              the proceedings pending before that court between Regina
an address for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of                    Virginia Hepple and Others v Adjudication Officer, Adjudica-
G. Thomas, 77, Boulevard Grande-Duchesse Charlotte —                       tion Officer v Anna Stec and Others — on the interpretation of
appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of              Article 7(1)(a) of Council Directive 79/7/EEC of 19 December
the European Communities (Second Chamber) of 18 February                   1978 on the progressive implementation of the principle of
1998 in Case T-189/97 Comité d’Entreprise de la Société                    equal treatment for men and women in matters of social
Française de Production and Others v Commission [1998]                     security (OJ 1979 L 6, p. 24) — the Court, composed
ECR II-335, seeking to have that order set aside — the other               of: G.C. Rodrı́guez, President, D.A.O. Edward and L. Sevón,
party to the proceedings being: Commission of the European                 Presidents of Chamber, P.J.G. Kapteyn, C. Gulmann, J.-P. Puis-
Communities (Agents: G. Rozet and D. Triantafyllou) —                      sochet, G. Hirsch, P. Jann and H. Ragnemalm (Rapporteur),