Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) 3 February 1994

In Case C-13/93, REFERENCE to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the Cour du Travail de Liège (Labour Court, Liège) (Belgium) for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between

THE COURT (Sixth Chamber), composed of: G. F. Mancini, President of the Chamber, C. N. Kakouris, F. A. Schockweiler, P. J. G. Kapteyn (Rapporteur) and J. L. Murray, Judges, Advocate General: G. Tesauro, Registrar: J.-G. Giraud,

after considering the written observations submitted on behalf of: the German Government, by Ernst Röder, Ministerialrat at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, acting as Agent, the Commission of the European Communities, by Marie Wolfcarius, a member of its Legal Service, and Théophile Margellos, Avocat, Maître de Conférences at the University of Picardy, on secondment to the Commission's Legal Service, acting as Agents,

having regard to the Report of the Judge-Rapporteur,

after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 9 December 1993,

gives the following

Judgment

Costs

1 Language of the case: French.