CELEX: C1996/077/01
Language: en
Date: 1996-03-16 00:00:00
Title: JUDGMENT OF THE COURT of 14 December 1995 in Joined Cases C-430/93 and C-431/93 (references for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden): Jeroen van Schijndel and Johannes Nicolaas Cornelis van Veen v. Stichting Pensioenfonds voor Fysiotherapeuten (Treatment of an occupational pension fund as an undertaking - Compulsory membership of an occupational pension scheme - Compatibility with the rules of competition - Whether a point of Community law may be raised for the first time in cassation, thereby altering the subject-matter of the proceedings and entailing an examination of facts)

16 . 3 . 96           EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No C 77/ 1
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                                               COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                         COURT OF JUSTICE
               JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                       court to apply Articles 3 (f), 85, 86 and 90 of the EC
                     of 14 December 1995                                   Treaty even when the party with an interest in
                                                                           application of those provisions has not relied on them,
in Joined Cases C-430/93 and C-431 /93 ( references for a                  where domestic law allows such application by the
preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden ):                   national court.
Jeroen van Schijndel and Johannes Nicolaas Cornelis van
Veen v. Stichting Pensioenfonds voor Fysiotherapeuten ( 1 )
                                                                       2 . Community law does not require national courts to raise
(Treatment of an occupational pension fund as an                           of their own motion an issue concerning the breach of
undertaking — Compulsory membership of an                                  provisions of Community law where examination of
occupational pension scheme — Compatibility with the                       that issue would oblige them to abandon the passive role
rules ofcompetition — Whether a point of Community law                     assigned to them by going beyond the ambit of the
may be raised for the first time in cassation, thereby altering            dispute defined by the parties themselves and relying on
the subject-matter of the proceedings and entailing an                     facts and circumstances other than those on which the
                     examination of facts)                                 party with an interest in application of those provisions
                          ( 96/C 77/01 )                                   bases his claim .
                (Language of the case: Dutch)                          (') OJ No C 338 , 15 . 12 . 1993 .
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be
          published in the European Court Reports)
In joined Cases C-430/93 and C-431 /93 : references to the
Court under Article 177 of the EC Treaty from the Hoge
                                                                                     JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
Raad der Nederlanden ( Supreme Court of the Netherlands )
for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before                                    ( Fourth Chamber )
that court between Jeroen van Schijndel and Johannes                                      of 14 December 1995
Nicolaas Cornelis van Veen and Stichting Pensioenfonds
voor Fysiotherapeuten — on ( i ) the interpretation of                 in Joined Cases C-106/94 and C-139/94 ( references for a
Community law with regard to the power of a national                   preliminary ruling from the Cour d'Appel, Bourges ( France)
court to consider of its own motion the compatibility of a             and the Tribunal de Grande Instance, Paris ): criminal
rule of domestic law with Articles 3 ( f), 5 , 85 , 86 and/or 90       proceedings against Patrick Colin and Daniel Dupré ( } )
of the EC Treaty and ( ii ) the interpretation of those                (Refund for use of sugar in the manufacture of certain
provisions — the Court, composed of G. C. Rodriguez                    chemicalproducts — Throatpastilles — Tonic beverages —
Iglesias , President, C. N. Kakouris , D. A. O. Edward, J. -P.                               Tariff classification)
Puissochet and G. Hirsch ( Presidents of Chambers ), G. F.                                        ( 96/C 77/02 )
Mancini, F. A. Schockweiler, J. C. Moitinho de Almeida
( Rapporteur ), P. J. G. Kapteyn, C. Gulmann, J. L. Murray,                           (Language of the case: French)
P. Jann and H. Ragnemalm, Judges; F. G. Jacobs, Advocate
General; R. Grass, Registrar, and H. A. Rühl, Principal
Administrator, has given a judgment on 14 December 1995 ,              (Provisional translation; the definitive verison will be
in which it rules :                                                             published in the European Court Reports)
 1 . In proceedings concerning civil rights and obligations            In joined Cases C-106/94 and C-139/94 : references to the
     freely entered into by the parties, it is for the national        Court under Article 177 of the EC Treaty from the Cour