DIARY OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE.

COURT OF JUSTICE

Tuesday October 12

- Judgment C-222/02 Paul and Others. Freedom of establishment. Directive on deposit-guarantee schemes. Limitation of protection to the amount of the guarantee prescribed by the directive or right of depositors to measures by the national authorities designed to protect the funds deposited. Interpretation of Directives relating to credit and insurance institutions, investment firms investment services in the securities field.

- Judgment C-313/02 Wippel. Social policy. Implementation of the principle of equal pay for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions. Annexe: Framework Agreement on part-time work - Concept of "worker" in relation to a person whose contract of employment provides that the "worker's" services will be called upon according to the employer's needs, days and working hours then being stipulated by common accord. Discrimination against part-time workers.

- Hearing C-61/03 Commission v United Kingdom. EA. Infringement of Article 37 of the Euratom Treaty. Failure to submit a plan for the disposal of radioactive waste as part of the decommissioning of a nuclear reactor

- Hearing C-152/03 Ritter-Coulais. Freedom of establishment. National rules for taxation of income of natural persons which restrict the deductibility of losses from the letting of immovable property or the application of the negative tax progression clause solely to losses relating to property situated on the national territory.

- Judgment C-87/00 Nicoli. Agriculture. Late fixing of sugar intervention prices. Failure to fix a derived intervention price for all areas of Italy. Procedures for classifying deficit areas.

- Judgment C-55/02 Commission v Portugal. Social Policy. Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations. Directive relating to collective redundancies. Restriction of the concept of "collective redundancies" to redundancies for structural, technological or cyclical reasons, to the exclusion of all other reasons not directly connected with the workforce itself.

- Judgment C-60/03 Wolff & Muller. Freedom to provide services. Compatibility of national legislation under which a building contractor is regarded as guarantor of the obligation to pay the minimum wage to workers employed by subcontractors. Legislation the principal objective of which is not the protection of workers.

- Judgment C-106/03 P Vedial v Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market. Intellectual property. Appeal brought against the...