22.8.2022   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 318/13


Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 30 June 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Castilla y León — Spain) — Clemente v Comunidad de Castilla y León (Dirección General de la Función Pública)

(Case C-192/21) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Social policy - Directive 1999/70/EC - Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP - Clause 4(1) - Principle of non-discrimination - Failure to take into account the services provided by an interim civil servant who has become a career civil servant for the purpose of consolidating his or her personal grade - Assimilation of those services to those provided by a career civil servant - Concept of ‘objective grounds’ - Taking into account the period of service for the purpose of acquiring the status of career civil servant - Structure of the vertical progression of career civil servants under national legislation)

(2022/C 318/17)

Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Castilla y León

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Mr Clemente

Defendant: Comunidad de Castilla y León (Dirección General de la Función Pública)

Operative part of the judgment

Clause 4(1) of the framework agreement on fixed-term work, concluded on 18 March 1999, which is annexed to Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP, precludes national legislation under which, for the purposes of consolidating a personal grade, account is not taken of services which a career civil servant provided as an interim civil servant before he or she acquired the status of career civil servant.


(1)  OJ C 263, 5.7.2021.