32The German Government submits that although, according to settled case-law, Directive 76/207 prohibits restrictions on access to employment and on dismissals due to a woman's being pregnant, to work prohibitions and to protective measures relating to pregnancy, that case-law is not applicable to the present case, which involves the conditions and ways of carrying out a preexisting employment relationship. In that light, the circumstances of the main proceedings in this case differ from those where the Court has had to rule on issues involving the hiring or dismissal of a female employee (Case C-179/88 Handels- og Kontorfunktionærernes Forbund [1990] ECR I-3979; Case C-421/92 Habermann-Beltermann [1994] ECR I-1657; Case C-32/93 Webb [1994] ECR I-3567; Case C-207/98 Mahlburg [2000] ECR I-549; and Case C-109/00 Tele Danmark [2001] ECR I-6993. Ms Busch enjoyed the security of an employment contract for an indefinite term, the existence of which was not disputed when the clinic contested the validity of its consent to an earlier end to the parental leave.
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