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Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 20 November 2003. # Carlito Abler and Others v Sodexho MM Catering Gesellschaft mbH. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Oberster Gerichtshof - Austria. # Social policy - Approximation of laws - Transfers of undertakings - Safeguarding of workers' rights - Directive 77/187/EEC - Scope - Definition of transfer. # Case C-340/01.
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 20 November 2003.
Carlito Abler and Others v Sodexho MM Catering Gesellschaft mbH.
Reference for a preliminary ruling: Oberster Gerichtshof - Austria.
Social policy - Approximation of laws - Transfers of undertakings - Safeguarding of workers' rights - Directive 77/187/EEC - Scope - Definition of transfer.
Case C-340/01.
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 20 November 2003.
Carlito Abler and Others v Sodexho MM Catering Gesellschaft mbH.
Reference for a preliminary ruling: Oberster Gerichtshof - Austria.
Social policy - Approximation of laws - Transfers of undertakings - Safeguarding of workers' rights - Directive 77/187/EEC - Scope - Definition of transfer.
Case C-340/01.
European Court Reports 2003 I-14023
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2003:629
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(Article 1 of Council Directive 77/187)
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Sixth Chamber)
20 November 2003 (1)
((Social policy – Approximation of laws – Transfers of undertakings – Safeguarding of workers' rights – Directive 77/187/EEC – Scope – Definition of transfer))
In Case C-340/01,
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 Carlito Abler and Othersand
Sodexho MM Catering Gesellschaft mbH, intervener Sanrest Großküchen Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, on the interpretation of Council Directive 77/187/EEC of 14 February 1977 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 businesses (OJ 1977 L 61, p. 26),THE COURT (Sixth Chamber),,
after considering the written observations submitted on behalf of:
having regard to the Report for the Hearing,
after hearing the oral observations of Sodexho MM Catering Gesellschaft mbH, represented by G. Loibner, of Sanrest Großküchen Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, represented by A. Walchshofer, Rechtsanwalt, and of the Commission, represented by J. Sack, at the hearing on 15 May 2003,
after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 19 June 2003,
gives the following
On those grounds,
THE COURT (Sixth Chamber),
in answer to the question referred to it by the Oberster Gerichtshof by order of 25 June 2001, hereby rules: Article 1 of Council Directive 77/187/EEC of 14 February 1977 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 businesses must be interpreted as applying to a situation in which a contracting authority which had awarded the contract for the management of the catering services in a hospital to one contractor terminates that contract and concludes a contract for the supply of the same services with a second contractor, where the second contractor uses substantial parts of the tangible assets previously used by the first contractor and subsequently made available to it by the contracting authority, even where the second contractor has expressed the intention not to take on the employees of the first contractor.
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