62024CJ0310_SUM
Case C‑310/24
YL
v
‘Elektrorazpredelitelni mrezhi Zapad’ EAD
(Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski rayonen sad)
Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 5 June 2025
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Internal market for electricity – Regulation (EU) 2019/943 – Directive (EU) 2019/944 – Scope – Electricity consumption inaccurately measured owing to meter malfunction – Billing on the basis of estimated electricity consumption – Consumer rights – Directive (EU) 2011/83 – Scope – Unsolicited supply)
Questions referred for a preliminary ruling – Admissibility – Limits – Clearly irrelevant questions and hypothetical questions put in a context not permitting a useful answer – Questions concerning hypotheses that do not correspond to the factual situation of the dispute – Inadmissibility
(Art. 267 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 53(2))
(see paragraphs 40-44, 48)
Energy – Internal market for electricity – Regulation 2019/943 – Provisions on charges for access to networks applied by network operators – Scope – Electricity meter malfunction preventing measurement of the quantity of electricity consumed by a residential customer – Billing for electricity consumption calculated on the basis of estimated electricity consumption – Inapplicability of the provisions cited above
(European Parliament and Council Regulation 2019/943, Art. 18(1), (7) and (8))
(see paragraphs 51, 52, 62, operative part 1)
Energy – Internal market for electricity – Directive 2019/944 – Contractual rights – Right of final customer to be informed by the electricity supplier of any adjustment in the supply price – Scope – Obligation for the electricity supplier to inform the final customer of the transmission and distribution tariffs which seek to remunerate the network operator – None
(European Parliament and Council Directive 2019/944, Art. 10(4))
(see paragraphs 53-55, operative part 1)
Energy – Internal market for electricity – Directive 2019/944 – Independent transmission system operators – Undertaking collecting charges for the activity of electricity transmission – Activity of electricity transmission – Concept – Collection of charges to compensate for losses – Not included
(European Parliament and Council Directive 2019/944, Art. 46(2)(d))
(see paragraphs 56, 57, operative part 1)
Energy – Internal market for electricity – Directive 2019/944 – Regulatory authorities – Duties and powers – Power of the national regulatory authority to fix or approve transmission and distribution tariffs, or their calculation methodologies – Concept of transmission and distribution tariff – Amount billed for electricity consumed but not accurately measured – Amount billed not corresponding to a transmission and distribution tariff
(European Parliament and Council Directive 2019/944, Art. 59(1)(a))
(see paragraphs 58, 59, operative part 1)
Consumer protection – Consumer contracts – Directive 2011/83 – Scope – Forced sale – Concept – Payment for electricity supplied and consumed by the customer in accordance with a valid contract – Electricity not accurately measured owing to the malfunctioning of an electricity meter – Not included – Inapplicability of the directive
(European Parliament and Council Directive 2011/83, Art. 27)
(see paragraphs 60-62, operative part 2)
See the text of the decision.