39The Court has accordingly previously held that clause 4 of the framework agreement must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which absolutely prohibits periods of service completed by a fixed-term worker for a public authority being taken into account in determining the period of service deemed completed by that worker upon his recruitment on a permanent basis by that same authority as a career civil servant under a stabilisation procedure specific to his employment relationship, unless that prohibition is justified on ‘objective grounds’ within the meaning of clause 4(1) and/or (4) of the framework agreement. The mere fact that the fixed-term worker completed those periods of service on the basis of a fixed-term employment contract or relationship does not constitute such an objective ground (judgment of 18 October 2012, Valenza and Others, C‑302/11 to C‑305/11, EU:C:2012:646, paragraph 71).
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