61As to whether EU law allows national courts to protect, on the basis of national law, the legitimate expectation of employers that the case-law of the highest national courts confirming the lawfulness of the provisions on paid annual leave in the BRTV-Bau will continue to apply, it must be noted that the application of the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations as contemplated by the referring court would, in practice, have the effect of limiting the temporal effects of the Court’s interpretation of the provisions of EU law since, by those means, that interpretation would not be applicable in the main proceedings (see, to that effect, judgment of 19 April 2016, DI, C‑441/14, EU:C:2016:278, paragraph 39).
Source: EUR-Lex, © European Union, 1998-2026. Reuse authorised under Decision 2011/833/EU.