Question juridique clé
Whether the claimant's 80% residual capacity from June 2016 was economically usable on the balanced labour market despite advanced age.
Solution extraite
No. Given the very short remaining working life, narrow suitable profile, one-sided professional history and need for adaptation, the residual capacity was not realistically marketable.
Motifs extraits
The court held that the decisive date was when medical work capacity became reliably assessable, i.e. end of May 2016. At that point the claimant was already over 63, could no longer work in his lifelong profession, and would need to switch to simple light work outside his experience. The expected hiring and training effort made employment economically unrealistic.