CELEX: 62018CB0645
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Case C-645/18: Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 19 December 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark — Austria) — NE v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Hartberg-Fürstenfeld (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court — Freedom to provide services — Posting of workers — Article 56 TFEU — Directive 2014/67/EU — Articles 9 and 20 — Reporting of workers — Retention of records of wages — Penalties — Proportionality — Fines of a predefined minimum amount — Cumulative — No upper limit — Court fees)

2.3.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 68/21
            
         
      Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 19 December 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark — Austria) — NE v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Hartberg-Fürstenfeld
      (Case C-645/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court - Freedom to provide services - Posting of workers - Article 56 TFEU - Directive 2014/67/EU - Articles 9 and 20 - Reporting of workers - Retention of records of wages - Penalties - Proportionality - Fines of a predefined minimum amount - Cumulative - No upper limit - Court fees)
      (2020/C 68/20)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: NE
      
         Defendant: Bezirkshauptmannschaft Hartberg-Fürstenfeld
      
         Intervener: Finanzpolizei
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      Article 20 of Directive 2014/67/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System (‘the IMI Regulation’) must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which lays down, in the event of non-compliance with labour law obligations relating to the reporting of workers and the retention of records of wages, the imposition of high fines:
      
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                  which may not be lower than a predefined amount;
               
            
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                  which are imposed cumulatively in respect of each worker concerned and without an upper limit, and
               
            
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                  to which is added a contribution to court costs of 20 % of the amount of the fines if the appeal against the decision imposing those fines is dismissed.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 122, 1.4.2019.