# CJEU holds that Hungary's sudden lowering of judges' retirement age breaches EU law

Date: 2012

On 6 November 2012 the Court of Justice held in Commission v Hungary (C-286/12) that suddenly lowering the compulsory retirement age of judges, prosecutors, and notaries from 70 to 62 breached equal-treatment law. The underlying cardinal judicial-status statute had entered into force on 1 January 2012. This Fact is that dated judgment. It is not the 2011 National Judicial Office statute taken alone, not a later funds-linked court reform, and not a personality. The CJEU judgment is the official file; the Venice Commission opinion on the judicial-status acts is the independent file.

## Drivers

- Illiberal state capture in Hungary: https://factrail.ai/drivers/orban-illiberal-state-capture

## Sources

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## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hu-judicial-retirement-2012