Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 07/07/2011

Subject: The Court declared inadmissible the reference preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Bacău (Romania) concerning a discriminatory treatment on grounds of socio professional category and place of work. The Court excluded her competence because the situation falled outside the general frameworks established by Directives 2000/43 and 2000/78. Neither Article 13 EC nor Article 19 TFEU can even constitute a legal basis for Council measures to combat such discrimination. The Court affirmed that it has not in any way been established that, in the present case, it is clearly in the European Union interest that provisions or concepts taken from European Union law should be interpreted uniformly, in such a way as to confer jurisdiction on the Court to answer the questions referred to it for a preliminary ruling.

Parties: Agafiţei e a.

Classification: Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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