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Document 62025CN0704

Case C-704/25, Administração Central do Sistema de Saúde: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Central Administrativo Norte (Portugal) lodged on 6 October 2025 – SR v Administração Central do Sistema de Saúde, I.P., Escala Braga – Soc. Gestora do Estabelecimento do Hospital de Braga, S.A.

OJ C, C/2026/2198, 27.4.2026, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/2198/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/2198/oj

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C/2026/2198

27.4.2026

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Central Administrativo Norte (Portugal) lodged on 6 October 2025 – SR v Administração Central do Sistema de Saúde, I.P., Escala Braga – Soc. Gestora do Estabelecimento do Hospital de Braga, S.A.

(Case C-704/25, Administração Central do Sistema de Saúde)

(C/2026/2198)

Language of the case: Portuguese

Referring court

Tribunal Central Administrativo Norte

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: SR

Defendant and respondent: Administração Central do Sistema de Saúde, I.P.

Interested party: Escala Braga – Soc. Gestora do Estabelecimento do Hospital de Braga, S.A.

Questions referred

1.

Does the concept of ‘undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses’, whether public or private, engaged in economic activities, whether or not they are operating for gain, apply to a public hospital such as the Hospital de São Marcos?

2.

If so, did Articles 1(1)(a) and (c) and 3(1) of [Council Directive 2001/23/EC (1) 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] allow the transfer of the active ownership of the transferor’s employment relationships to the transferee to be excluded by means of a contract concluded between a transferor and a transferee?


(1)   OJ L 82. 22.3.2001, pp. 16-20.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/2198/oj

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