20.6.2009 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 141/28 |
Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberste Berufungs- und Disziplinarkommission (Austria) lodged on 1 April 2009 — Robert Koller v Rechtsanwaltsprüfungskommission beim Oberlandesgericht Graz
(Case C-118/09)
2009/C 141/48
Language of the case: German
Referring court
Oberste Berufungs- und Disziplinarkommission
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Robert Koller
Defendant: Rechtsanwaltsprüfungskommission beim Oberlandesgericht Graz
Questions referred
1. |
Is Directive 89/48/EEC (1) applicable to the case of an Austrian national if he
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2. |
In the event that Question 1 is answered in the affirmative: Is it compatible with Directive 89/48/EEC to interpret Paragraph 24 of the Bundesgesetz über den freien Dienstleistungsverkehr und die Niederlassung von europäischen Rechtsanwälten in Österreich (Federal law on the free movement of services and the establishment of European lawyers in Austria, ‘EuRAG’) as meaning that obtaining an Austrian degree in law and attaining the entitlement to use the Spanish title ‘Licenciado en Derecho’ after taking supplementary examinations at a Spanish university over a period of less than three years of study is not sufficient for admission to the aptitude test in Austria under Paragraph 24(1) of the EuRAG without proof of the practice required under national law (Paragraph 2(2) of the Rechtsanwaltsordnung (Lawyers’ Code, ‘RAO’), even if the applicant has been admitted as an ‘abogado’ in Spain without a comparable requirement for practice and had pursued the profession there for three weeks before making the application and for five months at the most before the first instance decision? |