Court of Justice of the European Communities (including Court of First Instance Decisions)

Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 7 March 2013 - Rivas Montes

(Case C-178/12)

Articles 53(2) and 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court - Social policy - Principle of equal treatment - Directive 1999/70/EC - Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP - Clause 4 - Fixed-term employment contracts in the public sector - Determination of length of service - Difference in treatment between civil servants and contractual staff - Taking into account previous periods of employment completed in the administration - Clear lack of jurisdiction of the Court

Questions referred for a preliminary ruling - Jurisdiction of the Court - Limits - Question raised in the context of a dispute concerning national law and not EU law - Clear lack of jurisdiction of the Court (Art. 267 TFEU) (see paras 50-54)

Re:

Request for a preliminary ruling - Juzgado de lo social - Interpretation of Article 45(4) TFEU - National legislation governing the method of calculation of length-of-service increments in the civil service - Application by a public authority of different rules according to whether the employment relationship is of a public service or of a contractual kind - Failure to take into account certain periods of service completed by contractual staff.

Operative part:

The Court of Justice of the European Union clearly has no jurisdiction to reply to the questions referred for a preliminary ruling by the Juzgado de lo Social No 1 de Córdoba (Spain) by decision of 27 February 2012.