Artikel 1, stk. 1, i Rådets direktiv 77/187/EØF om til nærmelse af medlemsstatemes lovgivning om varetagelse af arbejdstagernes rettigheder i forbindelse med overførsel af virksomheder, bedrifter eller dele af be drifter skal fortolkes således, at direktivet finder anven delse, såfremt en kommune, der som offentligretlig juridisk person handler inden for rammerne af specifikke forvaltningsretlige regler, overtager reklame- og informationsarbejde vedrørende kommunens tilbud til of fentligheden, hvilket arbejde indtil da i kommunens in teresse blev udført af en ikke-erhvervsdrivende sammenslutning, der var en privatretligjuridisk person, forudsat at den overdragne enhed bevarer sin identitet.
On a proper construction of Article 1(1) of Council Di­rective 77/187/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event of transfers of undertak­ings, businesses or parts of businesses, the Directive applies where a municipality, a legal person governed by public law operating within the framework of spe­cific mies of administrative law, takes over activities relating to publicity and information concerning the services which it offers to the public, where such activ­ities were previously carried out, in the interests of the municipality, by a non-profit-making association which was a legal person governed by private law, pro­vided always that the transferred entity retains its iden­tity.