By its application, the European Commission claims that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) should declare that, by maintaining in force, with respect to occasional workers in the entertainment arts, derogations from measures designed to prevent the abusive use of successive fixed-term contracts, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under Clause 5 of the Framework Agreement on fixed-term work of 18 March 1999 (‘the Framework Agreement’), which is set out in the Annex to Council Directive 1999/70/EC.