Judgment_paragraph 29 · Miriam Bichat and Others v APSB - Aviation Passage Service Berlin GmbH & Co. KG (C-61/17, C-62/17, C-72/17)

29In that regard, it must be noted, first, that the first subparagraph of Article 2(4) of Directive 98/59 does not define ‘undertaking controlling the employer’, nor does it refer to the law of the Member States on that issue. According to the Court’s settled case-law, the need for uniform application of EU law and the principle of equality require that the terms of a provision of EU law which makes no express reference to the law of the Member States for the purpose of determining its meaning and scope must normally be given an autonomous and uniform interpretation throughout the European Union (see, inter alia, judgments of 27 January 2005, Junk, C‑188/03, EU:C:2005:59, paragraphs 29 and 30, and of 13 May 2015, Lyttle and Others, C‑182/13, EU:C:2015:317, paragraph 26 and the case-law cited).