Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 2 June 2005 in Case C-394/02: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 93/38/EEC — Public procurement in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors — Contract for the construction of a conveyor-belt system for the thermal-electricity generation plant at Megalopolis — Failure to publish a contract notice — Technical reasons — Unforeseeable event — Extreme urgency)
Date: 2005-07-23
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European Commission, Greece, action for failure to fulfil an obligation, award of contract, electricity supply, public contract

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COURT OF JUSTICE

COURT OF JUSTICE

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(First Chamber)

of 26 May 2005

(First Chamber)

of 2 June 2005

in Case C-301/02 P Carmine Salvatore Tralli v European
Central Bank (1)

in Case C-394/02: Commission of the European Commu-
nities v Hellenic Republic (1)

(Appeal — Staff of the European Central Bank — Recruit-
ment — Extension of the probationary period — Dismissal
during the probationary period)

(2005/C 182/01)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive
in the water, energy,
93/38/EEC — Public procurement
transport and telecommunications sectors — Contract for the
construction of a conveyor-belt system for the thermal-electri-
city generation plant at Megalopolis — Failure to publish a
contract notice — Technical reasons — Unforeseeable event
— Extreme urgency)

(Language of the case: German)

(2005/C 182/02)

In Case C-301/02 P: appeal under Article 49 of the EC Statute
of the Court of Justice, brought on 26 August 2002, Carmine
Salvatore Tralli (represented by N. Pflüger, Rechtsanwalt), the
other party to the proceedings being the European Central
Bank (Agents: V. Saintot
assisted by
B. Wägenbaur, Rechtsanwalt) — the Court (First Chamber),
composed of P. Jann, President of the Chamber, A. Rosas, R.
Silva de Lapuerta (Rapporteur), S. von Bahr and K. Schiemann,
Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; M.-F. Contet, Principal
Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 26 May
2005, in which it:

and M. Benisch,

1. Dismisses the appeal;

2. Orders Mr Tralli to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 289 of 23.11.2002.

(Language of the case: Greek)

In Case C-394/02: Commission of the European Communities
(Agents: M. Nolin and M. Konstantinidis) v Hellenic Republic
(Agents: P. Mylonopoulos, D. Tsagkaraki and S. Chala) —
action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations,
brought on 8 November 2002 — the Court (First Chamber),
composed of P. Jann (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, K.
Lenaerts, J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, M. Ilešič and E. Levits, Judges;
F.G. Jacobs, Advocate General; K. Sztranc, Administrator, for
the Registrar, gave a judgment on 2 June 2005, in which it:

1. Declares that, by reason of the award by the public electricity
undertaking Dimosia Epicheirisi Ilektrismoy of the contract for the
construction of a conveyor-belt system for the thermal-electricity
generation plant at Megalopolis by means of a negotiated proce-
dure without prior publication of a contract notice, the Hellenic
Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Council Directive
93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement proce-
dures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and tele-
communications sectors, as amended by Directive 98/4/EC of the
European Parliament and the Council of 16 February 1998, and,
in particular, under Articles 20(1) and 21 thereof;

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2. Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(1) OJ C 19 of 25.01.2003.

(Grand Chamber)

of 7 June 2005

in Case C-17/03: Reference for a preliminary ruling from
the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven Vereniging
voor Energie, Milieu en Water and Others v Directeur van
de Dienst uitvoering en toezicht energie (1)

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Grand Chamber)

of 31 May 2005

in Case C-438/02: Reference for a preliminary ruling from
the Stockholms tingsrätt in criminal proceedings against
Krister Hanner (1)

(Articles 28 EC, 31 EC, 43 EC and 86(2) EC — Marketing of
medicinal preparations — Establishment of retail traders —
National monopoly on the retail of medicinal preparations —
Undertaking entrusted with providing a service of general
economic interest)

(2005/C 182/03)

(Language of the case: Swedish)

In Case C-438/02: reference for a preliminary ruling under
Article 234 EC from the Stockholms tingsrätt (Sweden), made
by decision of 29 November 2002, received at the Court on 4
December 2002,
in criminal proceedings against Krister
Hanner, the Court (Grand Chamber), composed of V. Skouris,
Jann (Rapporteur), C.W.A.
President of
Timmermans and A. Rosas, Presidents of Chambers, J-P. Puisso-
chet, R. Schintgen, N. Colneric, S. von Bahr and J.N. Cunha
Rodrigues, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; M. Múgica Arza-
mendi, Principal Administrator, for the, Registrar, gave a judg-
ment on 31 May 2005, the operative part of which is as
follows:

the Chamber, P.

Article 31(1) EC precludes a sales regime which grants an exclusive
retail right and is arranged in the same way as the sales regime at
issue in the main proceedings.

(Internal market in electricity — Preferential access to the
system for cross-border transmission of electricity — Under-
taking previously responsible for the operation of services of
general economic interest — Long-term contracts existing
prior
the market — Directive
96/92/EC — Principle of non-discrimination — Principles of
legal
the protection of

to the liberalisation of

expectation and of

legitimate

certainty)

(2005/C 182/04)

(Language of the case: Dutch)

In Case C-17/03: reference for a preliminary ruling under
Article 234 EC from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijf-
sleven (Administrative Court for Trade and Industry) (Nether-
lands), made by decision of 13 November 2002, received at the
Court on 16 January 2003, in the proceedings between Vere-
niging voor Energie, Milieu en Water, Amsterdam Power
Exchange Spotmarket BV, Eneco NV and Directeur van de
intervening party:
Dienst uitvoering en toezicht energie,
Nederlands
BV,
Elektriciteit
previously Samenwerkende Elektriciteits Produktiebedrijven NV
— the Court (Grand Chamber), composed of V. Skouris, Presi-
dent, P. Jann, C.W.A. Timmermans and A. Rosas (Rapporteur),
Presidents of Chambers,
Schintgen,
J.-P.
N. Colneric, S. von Bahr, M.
J. Malenovský and U.
Lõhmus, Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate General; M.-F. Contet,
Principal Administrator, for the, Registrar, gave a judgment on
7 June 2005, the operative part of which is as follows:

Administratiekantoor

Puissochet, R.

Ilešič,

1. Articles 7(5) and 16 of Directive 96/92/EC of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 19 December 1996 concerning
common rules for the internal market in electricity are not limited
to covering technical rules but must be construed as applying to all
discrimination.

2. Those articles preclude national measures that grant an under-
taking preferential capacity for the cross-border transmission of
electricity, whether those measures derive from the system operator,
the controller of system management or the legislature, in the case
where such measures have not been authorised within the frame-
work of the procedure set out in Article 24 of Directive 96/92.

(1) OJ C 31 of 08.02.2003.

(1) OJ C 70 of 2.03.2003.