CELEX: C2007/269/34
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-332/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 17 July 2007 — Josef Holzinger v Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur

10.11.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 269/17
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 17 July 2007 — Josef Holzinger v Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur
   (Case C-332/07)
   (2007/C 269/34)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Administrative Court)
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Josef Holzinger
   
      Defendant: Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur
   Questions referred
   
               1.
            
            
               Is Article 9(1) of Annex I to the Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the free movement of persons (1) directly effective?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Is that provision to be interpreted as meaning that periods of employment completed in Switzerland before the entry into force of the Agreement (1 June 2002) must be taken into account for the purposes of advancement in comparable employment subsequently pursued in a Member State of the European Community, irrespective of when those periods of employment were completed?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 2002 L 114, p. 6.