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Document 62018CN0064

Case C-64/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark (Austria) lodged on 1 February 2018 — Zoran Maksimovic

OJ C 259, 23.7.2018, p. 16–16 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

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Case C-64/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark (Austria) lodged on 1 February 2018 — Zoran Maksimovic

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Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark (Austria) lodged on 1 February 2018 — Zoran Maksimovic

(Case C-64/18)

2018/C 259/22Language of the case: German

Referring court

Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark

Parties to the main proceedings

Appellant: Zoran Maksimovic

Respondent authority: Bezirkshauptmannschaft Murtal

Interested party: Finanzpolizei

Questions referred

1.

Must Article 56 TFEU, Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services ( 1 ) and Directive 2014/67/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC ( 2 ) be interpreted as precluding a national provision which, for infringements of formal obligations in connection with the cross-border deployment of labour, such as the failure by the hiring-out entity to make documents relating to pay available to the third-party employer, provides for very high fines, in particular high minimum penalties, which are imposed cumulatively in respect of each worker concerned?

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If Question 1 itself is answered in the negative:

Must Article 56 TFEU, Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services and Directive 2014/67/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC be interpreted as precluding the imposition of cumulative fines in the case of infringements of formal requirements in connection with the cross-border deployment of labour which have no absolute upper limits?


( 1 ) OJ 1997 L 18, p. 1.

( 2 ) OJ 2014 L 159, p. 11.

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