Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) 13 December 1994

In Case C-297/93, REFERENCE to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the Arbeitsgericht Bremen (Germany) for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between

THE COURT (Fifth Chamber), composed of: G. C. Rodriguez Iglesias, President of the Court acting as President of the Chamber, R. Joliét (Rapporteur), President of Chamber, and J. C. Moitinho de Almeida, Judge, Advocate General: F. G. Jacobs, Registrar: R. Grass,

after considering the written observations submitted on behalf of: the Stadtgemeinde Bremen, defendant in the main proceedings, by V. Schottelius, Rechtsanwalt, Bremen, the German Government by E. Röder, Ministerialrat at the Federal Ministry of the Economy, and C. D. Quassowski, Regierungsdirektor at the same Ministry, acting as Agents, the Commission of the European Communities, by K. Banks, of its Legal Service, and H. Kreppel, a national civil servant 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 29 June 1994,

gives the following

Judgment

First question

The second question

Costs

1 Language of the case: German.