Free Movement of workers - Obliged entities and persons

3 important questions on Free Movement of workers - Obliged entities and persons

ECJ case C-415/93, judgement of 15 Dec 1995, Bosman, paras 82-87, 92- 104. What was the decision of the ECJ?


  • Professional footballer = worker
  • Horizontal effect of freedom of workers -> collective rules of sporting associations
    organised according to private law
  • Prohibition of measure which impedes or makes impossible a cross-border change
    of employment
  • Prohibition to restrict possibility to leave the job
  • Prohibition of limitation of number of professional players from other MS by football
    associations

ECJ case C-350/96, judgement of 7 May 1998, Clean Car, paras 18-21, 26-30, 31 What were the facts of the case?


  • The Clean Car Autoservice GmbH (seated in Austria) applied for
    registration of a trade in Vienna
  • Registration was refused because Clean Car had a manager not residing in Austria

ECJ case C-350/96, judgement of 7 May 1998, Clean Car, paras 18-21, 26-30, 31 What was the decision of the ECJ?


  • Prohibition of all forms of disguised/indirect discrimination
  • Also employers may be beneficiaries of freedom of workers
  • “It would be otherwise only if the imposition of such a residence
    requirement were based on objective considerations independent of the nationality of the employees concerned and proportionate to a legitimate aim pursued by the national law.”

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