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).
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