In Lindorfer v Council of the European Union C-277/04P, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that the use by the Council of the European Union of different actuarial factors for men and women when calculating transfer credits was unlawful sex discrimination. Ms Lindorfer was an Austrian national who took up an appointment with the Council and subsequently applied to transfer her national pension into the Council's pension scheme. The ECJ accepted her argument that the formula used to convert her pension into transfer credits in the Council's scheme was discriminatory on the grounds of sex. But the ECJ rejected her claim that it also amounted to age discrimination.