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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11128

25 July 2014
Contents Publication in full By article 35 / 35
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / (ae) social
Police are not firefighters so age cannot affect recruitment

Brussels, 24/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - By refusing to recruit people aged over 30 as police officers in the local police force, the Spanish municipal area of Oviedo is breaching Community law by including a non-justifiable discriminatory principle based on age, according to Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi in his opinion of Thursday 17 July at the European Court of Justice (case C-416/13).

If the European Court of Justice previously authorised Germany to set an age limit in recruitment to...

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