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Summary

Keywords

1. Social policy - Men and women - Equal pay - Pay - Meaning - Retirement scheme for civil servants paying pensions by reason of the employment relationship - Included

(EC Treaty, Art. 119 (Articles 117 to 120 of the EC Treaty have been replaced by Articles 136 EC to 143 EC))

2. Social policy - Men and women - Equal pay - Article 119 of the Treaty (Articles 117 to 120 of the Treaty have been replaced by Articles 136 EC to 143 EC) - Retirement with immediate effect for women civil servants only - Not permissible

(Art. 119 of the EC Treaty (Articles 117 to 120 of the EC Treaty have been replaced by Articles 136 to 143 EC))

Summary

1. Pensions provided under a scheme such as the French retirement scheme for civil servants fall within the scope of Article 119 of the Treaty (Articles 117 to 120 of the Treaty have been replaced by Articles 136 EC to 143 EC).

( see para. 23 and operative part )

2. The principle of equal pay for men and women enshrined in Article 119 of the Treaty (Articles 117 to 120 of the Treaty have been replaced by Articles 136 EC to 143 EC) is infringed by a provision of national law which, in providing that only female civil servants whose husbands suffer from a disability or incurable illness making it impossible for them to undertake any form of employment are entitled to a retirement pension with immediate effect, deprives male civil servants in the same situation of that right.

( see para. 31 and operative part )