62023CJ0783_SUM
Case C‑783/23
Liège Airport Security SA
v
Belgian State
(Request for a preliminary ruling from the la Cour de cassation (Belgium))
Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 10 July 2025
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Transport – Air transport – Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 – Civil aviation security – Article 4 – Common basic standards – Article 9 – Appropriate authority – Member State’s obligation to designate a single authority to be responsible for the coordination and monitoring of the implementation of safety standards – Scope – National authority responsible for ensuring compliance with national regulations governing the exercise of private safety activities)
Transport – Air transport – Common rules in the field of civil aviation security – Regulation No 300/2008 – Authorities responsible for civil aviation security – Member State’s obligation to designate a single authority to be responsible for the coordination and monitoring of the implementation of common basic standards on civil aviation security – Scope – National authority, other than that competent authority, responsible for ensuring compliance, by a legal person, governed by private law, and its employees, who carry out security tasks at a national airport, with national regulations governing the exercise of private safety activities – Whether permissible
(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 300/2008, recitals 2, 5, 10, 12 and 25, and Art. 1(1), first subpara., Art. 3, points 2, 4, 9, and 10, and Art. 10(1))
(see paragraphs 32-45, operative part)
See the text of the decision.