Opinion of Advocate General Darmon delivered on 28 January 1992

1 Original language: French.

2 Bundesgesetzblatt I, p. 13.

3 Council Directive 75/117/EEC of 10 February 1975 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the application of the principle of equal pay for men and women (OJ 1975 L 45, p. 19).

4 Council Directive 76/207/EEC of 9 February 1976 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions (OJ 1976 L 39, p. 40).

5 For example, Case C-262/88 Barber v Guardian Royal Exchange [1990] ECR I-1889.

6 Case 171/88 Rinner-Kühn v FWW Spezial-Gehäudereinigung [1989] ECR 2743, paragraph 7; my Opinion, p. 2751, point 15.

7 Cited above.

8 Cited above.

9 Paragraph 12.

10 Paragraph 13.

11 Emphasis added.

12 Judgment of the Bundesarbeitsgericht of 19 July 1977, 1 AZR 302/74, Nachschlage-werk des Bundesarbeitsgerichts AP 1978, No 31, Paragraph 37 of the Betriebsverfassungsgesetz 1972, p. 89.

13 Case 96/80 Jenkins v Kingsgate [1981] ECR 911.

14 Case 170/84 Bilka v Weber von Hartz [1986] ECR 1607.

15 Ibid., paragraph 29.

16 Cited above.

17 See, for example, Bilka v Weber von Hartz, paragraph 30.

18 For example, Rinner-Kiihn, paragraph 15.

19 Rinner-Kiihn, paragraph 14.

20 Case C-102/88 Ruzius-Wilbrink v Bedrijfsvereniging voor Overheidsdiens-ten [1989] ECR4311, paragraph 16.

21 Judgment of 7 February 1991 in Case 184/89 Nimz v Freie una Hansestadt Hamburg, not yet published, paragraphs 13 and 14.

22 Cited above.