CELEX: 62008CA0577
Language: en
Date: 2010-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-577/08: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 29 July 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Arbeidshof te Antwerpen — Belgium) — Rijksdienst voor Pensioenen v Elisabeth Brouwer (Equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security — Directive 79/7/EEC — Frontier workers — Calculation of pensions)

11.9.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 246/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 29 July 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Arbeidshof te Antwerpen — Belgium) — Rijksdienst voor Pensioenen v Elisabeth Brouwer
   (Case C-577/08) (1)
   
   (Equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security - Directive 79/7/EEC - Frontier workers - Calculation of pensions)
   2010/C 246/04
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Arbeidshof te Antwerpen
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Rijksdienst voor Pensioenen
   
      Defendant: Elisabeth Brouwer
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Arbeidshof te Antwerpen — Interpretation of Article 4(1) of Council Directive 79/7/EEC of 19 December 1978 on the progressive implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security (OJ 1979 L 6, p. 24) — National legislation providing for notional and flat-rate daily wages that are lower for women than for men when calculating retirement pensions for salaried frontier workers
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 4(1) of Council Directive 79/7/EEC of 19 December 1978 on the progressive implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security, precludes national legislation under which, for the years 1984 to 1994, the calculation of old-age and retirement pensions for female frontier workers, concerning equal work or work of equal value, was based on notional and/or flat-rate daily wages lower than those for male frontier workers.
   
      (1)  OJ C 55, 7.3.2009.