CELEX: 62015CN0159
Language: en
Date: 2015-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-159/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 7 April 2015 — Franz Lesar

3.8.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 254/2
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 7 April 2015 — Franz Lesar
   (Case C-159/15)
   (2015/C 254/02)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Verwaltungsgerichtshof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Franz Lesar
   
      Defendant: Beim Vorstand der Telekom Austria AG eingerichtetes Personalamt
   
      Question referred
   
   Are Articles 2(1), Article 2(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 (1) to be interpreted as meaning that they are not compatible with a national provision — such as that in issue in the main proceedings — under which periods of apprenticeship and periods of employment as a contract agent with the Federal Government for which contributions to the compulsory pension insurance scheme were to be paid for the purposes of obtaining a civil servants’ pension are:
   
               (a)
            
            
               to be credited as pensionable periods prior to entry into service if they are completed after the 18th birthday, whereby the Federal Government in this case receives an agreed transferred contribution in accordance with the provisions of social security law for crediting these periods from the social security agency; or, alternatively
            
         
               (b)
            
            
               not to be credited as pensionable periods prior to entry into service, if they are completed before the 18th birthday, whereby there is no agreed transfer to the Federal Government for such periods if they are not credited, and the insured party is reimbursed for any contributions made to the pension insurance scheme, especially considering that, in the event that these periods are subsequently required to be credited under EU law, there would be a possible claim for the refund of the sums reimbursed by the social security organisation from the civil servant as well as the subsequent creation of an obligation on the part of the social security organisation to pay an agreed contribution to the Federal Government.
            
         
      (1)  OJ 2000 L 303, p. 16.