ECJ 21 July 2011, cases C-159/10 and C-160/10 (Fuchs and Köhler), Age discrimination
Council Directive 2000/78 [...] does not preclude a law […] which provides for the compulsory retirement of permanent civil servants - in this instance prosecutors - at the age of 65, while allowing them to continue to work, if it is in the interests of the service that they should do so, until the maximum age of 68, provided that that law has the aim of establishing a balanced age structure in order to encourage the recruitment and promotion of young people, to improve personnel management and thereby prevent possible disputes concerning employees’ fitness to work beyond a certain age, and that it allows that aim to be achieved by appropriate and necessary means.
European Court of Justice (ECJ), 2011-07-21