CELEX: 62015CN0118
Language: en
Date: 2015-03-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-118/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia del País Vasco (España) lodged on 9 March 2015 — Confederación Sindical ELA, Juan Manuel Martínez Sánchez v Aquarbe S.A.U., Consorcio de Aguas de Busturialdea

26.5.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 171/21
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia del País Vasco (España) lodged on 9 March 2015 — Confederación Sindical ELA, Juan Manuel Martínez Sánchez v Aquarbe S.A.U., Consorcio de Aguas de Busturialdea
   (Case C-118/15)
   (2015/C 171/25)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal Superior de Justicia del País Vasco
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Confederación Sindical ELA, Juan Manuel Martínez Sánchez
   
      Defendants: Aquarbe S.A.U., Consorcio de Aguas de Busturialdea
   
      Questions referred
   
   Does Article 1(1)(b) of Council Directive 2001/23/EC (1) of 12 March 2001, in conjunction with Article 4(1) thereof, preclude an interpretation of the Spanish legislation intended to give effect to the Directive, to the effect that a public-sector undertaking, responsible for a service central to its own activities and requiring important material resources, that has been providing that service by means of a public contract, requiring the contractor to use those resources which it owns, is not subject to the obligation to take over the rights and obligations relating to employment relationships when it decides not to extend the contract but to assume direct responsibility for its performance, using its own staff and thereby excluding the staff employed by the contractor, so that the service continues to be provided without any change other than that arising as a result of the replacement of the workers performing the activities and the fact that they are employed by a different employer?
   
      (1)  Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses OJ 2001 L 82, p. 16.