Judgment_paragraph 30 · VB v Glavna direktsia 'Pozharna bezopasnost i zashtita na naselenieto' (C-262/20)

30Moreover, the Court has also held that the exception provided for in Article 153(5) TFEU must be construed as covering measures – such as the equivalence of all or some of the constituent parts of pay and/or the level of pay in the Member States, or the setting of a minimum guaranteed wage – that amount to direct interference by EU law in the determination of pay within the European Union. On the other hand, it cannot be extended to any question involving any sort of link with pay; otherwise, some areas referred to in Article 153(1) TFEU would be deprived of much of their substance (judgment of 19 June 2014, Specht and Others, C‑501/12 to C‑506/12, C‑540/12 and C‑541/12, EU:C:2014:2005, paragraph 33 and the case-law cited).