72It follows that national legislation such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which fixes a maximum recruitment age of 30 for local police officers, cannot be considered necessary in order to ensure that those officers have a reasonable period of employment before retirement for the purposes of point (c) of the second subparagraph of Article 6(1) of Directive 2000/78. The fact that the ‘normal’ retirement age under the general social security scheme is fixed at 67 is entirely irrelevant in that regard.
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