Joined Cases C-364/18 and C-365/18: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 7 November 2019 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Lombardia — Italy) — Eni SpA v Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze (C-364/18), Shell Italia BV SpA v Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze, Autorità di Regolazione per l’Energia, Reti e Ambiente, formerly Autorità per l’energia elettrica e il gas e il sistema idrico (Case C-365/18) (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 94/22/EC — Energy — Conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons — Royalties — Methods of calculation — QE and PFOR indices — Discriminatory nature)
Date: 2019-11-07
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: equal treatment, fuel, hydrocarbon, payment, petroleum exploration, price index, price of energy, service concession








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23.12.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 432/10






Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 7 November 2019 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Lombardia — Italy) — Eni SpA v Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze (C-364/18), Shell Italia BV SpA v Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze, Autorità di Regolazione per l’Energia, Reti e Ambiente, formerly Autorità per l’energia elettrica e il gas e il sistema idrico (Case C-365/18)
(Joined Cases C-364/18 and C-365/18) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 94/22/EC - Energy - Conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons - Royalties - Methods of calculation - QE and PFOR indices - Discriminatory nature)
(2019/C 432/10)
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Lombardia

Parties to the main proceedings


(Case C-364/18)


Applicant: Eni SpA

Defendants: Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze

Interveners: Autorità di Regolazione per l’Energia, Reti e Ambiente, formerly Autorità per l’energia elettrica e il gas e il sistema idrico, Regione Basilicata, Comune di Viggiano, Regione Calabria, Comune di Ravenna, Assomineraria

(Case C-365/18)


Applicant: Shell Italia BV SpA

Defendants: Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze, Autorità di Regolazione per l’Energia, Reti e Ambiente, formerly Autorità per l’energia elettrica e il gas e il sistema idrico

Interveners: Regione Basilicata, Comune di Viggiano, Assomineraria

Operative part of the judgment

Article 6(1) of Directive 94/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 1994 on the conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons, read in the light of the sixth recital thereof, must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation under which the amount of royalties payable by holders of licences for the extraction of natural gas is calculated on the basis of an index based on the prices of oil and other fuels in the medium and long term and not an index that reflects the short-term market price of natural gas.


(1)  OJ C 294, 20.8.2018.