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Document 62001CJ0201
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 11 September 2003. # Maria Walcher v Bundesamt für Soziales und Behindertenwesen Steiermark. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Oberster Gerichtshof - Austria. # Protection of workers - Insolvency of the employer - Scope of Directive 80/987/EEC - National case-law on shareholder loans in lieu of capital contributions - Total loss of entitlement. # Case C-201/01.
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 11 September 2003.
Maria Walcher v Bundesamt für Soziales und Behindertenwesen Steiermark.
Reference for a preliminary ruling: Oberster Gerichtshof - Austria.
Protection of workers - Insolvency of the employer - Scope of Directive 80/987/EEC - National case-law on shareholder loans in lieu of capital contributions - Total loss of entitlement.
Case C-201/01.
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 11 September 2003.
Maria Walcher v Bundesamt für Soziales und Behindertenwesen Steiermark.
Reference for a preliminary ruling: Oberster Gerichtshof - Austria.
Protection of workers - Insolvency of the employer - Scope of Directive 80/987/EEC - National case-law on shareholder loans in lieu of capital contributions - Total loss of entitlement.
Case C-201/01.
European Court Reports 2003 I-08827
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2003:450
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(Council Directive 80/987,Articles 3(1), 4(2), first and second indents, and 10(a))
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Sixth Chamber)
11 September 2003 (1)
((Protection of workers – Insolvency of the employer – Scope of Directive 80/987/EEC – National case-law on shareholder loans in lieu of capital contributions – Total loss of entitlement))
In Case C-201/01, REFERENCE to the Court under Article 234 EC by the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between Maria Walcherand
Bundesamt für Soziales und Behindertenwesen Steiermark, on the interpretation of Council Directive 80/987/EEC of 20 October 1980 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer (OJ 1980 L 283, p. 23), as amended by the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded (OJ 1994 C 241, p. 21, and OJ 1995 L 1, p. 1),THE COURT (Sixth Chamber),,
after considering the written observations submitted on behalf of:
having regard to the Report for the Hearing,
after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 3 October 2002,
gives the following
On those grounds,
THE COURT (Sixth Chamber),
in answer to the questions referred to it by the Oberster Gerichtshof by order of 26 April 2001, hereby rules:
Puissochet |
Gulmann |
Macken |
Colneric |
Cunha Rodrigues |
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R. Grass |
J.-P. Puissochet |
Registrar |
President of the Sixth Chamber |