CELEX: 62015CA0258
Language: en
Date: 2016-11-15 00:00:00
Title: Case C-258/15: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 15 November 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco — Spain) — Gorka Salaberria Sorondo v Academia Vasca de Policía y Emergencias (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Equal treatment in employment and occupation — Directive 2000/78/EC — Article 2(2) and Article 4(1) — Discrimination on grounds of age — Recruitment of police officers of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country restricted to candidates under 35 years of age — Concept of ‘genuine and determining occupational requirement’ — Objective pursued — Proportionality)

16.1.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 14/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 15 November 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco — Spain) — Gorka Salaberria Sorondo v Academia Vasca de Policía y Emergencias
   (Case C-258/15) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Equal treatment in employment and occupation - Directive 2000/78/EC - Article 2(2) and Article 4(1) - Discrimination on grounds of age - Recruitment of police officers of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country restricted to candidates under 35 years of age - Concept of ‘genuine and determining occupational requirement’ - Objective pursued - Proportionality))
   (2017/C 014/10)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Gorka Salaberria Sorondo
   
      Defendant: Academia Vasca de Policía y Emergencias
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 2(2) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000, establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, read together with Article 4(1) of that directive, must be interpreted as not precluding legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which provides that candidates for posts as police officers who are to perform all the operational duties incumbent on police officers must be under 35 years of age.
   
      (1)  OJ C 270, 17.8.2015.