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Case C‑760/23 [Shanov] (
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‘EVN Bulgaria Toplofikatsia’ EAD
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(Request for a preliminary ruling from the Rayonen sad Plovdiv)
Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 23 October 2025
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Energy – Promotion of energy efficiency – Directive 2012/27/EU – Article 9(3) – Transparency and accuracy of accounting for the consumption of thermal energy by the common parts – Failure to take into account the actual amount of heat supplied to each dwelling – Algorithm for allocating the cost of thermal energy consumption in co-owned buildings)
Questions referred for a preliminary ruling – Admissibility – Questions referred lacking sufficient information regarding the factual and legislative context and the reasons justifying the need for an answer to the questions referred for a preliminary ruling – No connecting factor between the dispute in the main proceedings and the provisions of EU law referred to in the questions referred for a preliminary ruling – Manifest inadmissibility
(Art. 267 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 94)
(see paragraphs 39-44)
Energy – Promotion of energy efficiency – Directive 2012/27 – Metering – Obligation of Member States to provide for the installation in buildings of individual consumption meters for heating, cooling and hot water consumption – National legislation requiring each owner of an apartment in a co-owned building to pay the costs relating to the consumption of thermal energy emitted by the internal installation of the building in proportion to the heated volume of his or her apartment – Whether permissible – Condition – Calculation of costs based on rules and parameters which guarantee transparent and accurate accounting of individual consumption
(European Parliament and Council Directive 2012/27, recital 20 and Arts 1, 9(1) and (3), and 10(1))
(see paragraphs 50-65, operative part)
See the text of the decision.
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