Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 11/24/2016

Subject: The Court affirmed that a national rule which, in connection with an occupational benefit scheme, makes the right of surviving civil partners of members to receive a survivor’s benefit subject to the condition that the civil partnership was entered into before the member reached the age of 60, where national law did not allow the member to enter into a civil partnership before reaching that age, does not constitute discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and on grounds of age

Parties: Parris

Classification: Art. 21 Non discrimination

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