29.9.2012

Official Journal of the European Union

C 295/8

(Case C-62/11) (<span class="super">1</span>)

(Protocol on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the ECB - Article 36 - Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Communities - Articles 13, 15 and 23 - ECB Headquarters Agreement - Article 15 - Applicability to ECB staff of the provisions of German social welfare law providing for a parental allowance)

2012/C 295/13

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Appellant: Land Hessen

Respondent: Florence Feyerbacher

Re:

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Hessisches Landessozialgericht, Darmstadt — Interpretation of Article 15 of the Agreement of 18 September 1998 between the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Central Bank on the Headquarters of that institution, in conjunction with Article 36 of the Protocol on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and the European Central Bank — Right of a German official of the European Central Bank to receive a parental allowance provided for under German law — Classification of the Agreement on the Headquarters of the European Central Bank as part of European Union law or as an international treaty — Applicability of the provisions of German social law providing for the parental allowance to employees of the European Central Bank

Operative part of the judgment

Article 15 of the Agreement of 18 September 1998 between the German Government and the European Central Bank on the Headquarters of that institution, read in conjunction with Article 36 of the Protocol on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank, in the version annexed to the EC Treaty, does not preclude the Federal Republic of Germany from being able to grant an allowance such as that at issue in the main proceedings.

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Language of the case: German.

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(<span class="super">1</span>) OJ C 145, 14.5.2011.