Judgment_paragraph 35 · Georgios Agorastoudis and Others, Ioannis Pannou and Others, Kostandinos Kotsabougioukis and Others and Georgios Akritopoulos and Others v Goodyear Hellas ABEE (C-187/05, C-188/05, C-189/05, C-190/05)

35The Court has pointed out that Directive 75/129 does not affect the employer's freedom to effect or refrain from effecting collective redundancies and that its sole object is to provide for consultation with the trade unions and for notification of the competent public authority prior to such dismissals (Case 284/83 Nielsen & Søn [1985] ECR 553, paragraph 10).