Case C-376/22, Google Ireland and Others: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 9 November 2023 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Austria) — Google Ireland Limited, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Tik Tok Technology Limited v Kommunikationsbehörde Austria (KommAustria) (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2000/31/EC — Information society services — Article 3(1) — Principle of control in the home Member State — Article 3(4) — Derogation from the principle of free movement of information society services — Concept of ‘measures taken against a given information society service’ — Article 3(5) — Possibility of a posteriori notification of measures restricting the free movement of information society services in urgent cases — Failure to provide notification — Enforceability of those measures — Legislation of a Member State imposing on providers of communication platforms, whether established on its territory or not, a set of obligations relating to the monitoring and notification of allegedly unlawful content — Directive 2010/13/EU — Audiovisual media services — Video-sharing platform service)
Date: 2023-11-09
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: audiovisual industry, audiovisual production, data sharing, electronic commerce, freedom to provide services, information society, information technology, provision of services








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C/2024/465


3.1.2024





Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 9 November 2023 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Austria) — Google Ireland Limited, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Tik Tok Technology Limited v Kommunikationsbehörde Austria (KommAustria)
(Case C-376/22, (1) Google Ireland and Others)
(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 2000/31/EC - Information society services - Article 3(1) - Principle of control in the home Member State - Article 3(4) - Derogation from the principle of free movement of information society services - Concept of ‘measures taken against a given information society service’ - Article 3(5) - Possibility of a posteriori notification of measures restricting the free movement of information society services in urgent cases - Failure to provide notification - Enforceability of those measures - Legislation of a Member State imposing on providers of communication platforms, whether established on its territory or not, a set of obligations relating to the monitoring and notification of allegedly unlawful content - Directive 2010/13/EU - Audiovisual media services - Video-sharing platform service)
(C/2024/465)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Verwaltungsgerichtshof

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: Google Ireland Limited, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Tik Tok Technology Limited

Defendant: Kommunikationsbehörde Austria (KommAustria)

Intervening party: Bundesministerin für Frauen, Familie, Integration und Medien im Bundeskanzleramt

Operative part of the judgment

Article 3(4) of Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market,
must be interpreted as meaning that general and abstract measures aimed at a category of given information society services described in general terms and applying without distinction to any provider of that category of services do not fall within the concept of measures taken against a ‘given information society service’ within the meaning of that provision.


(1)  
            OJ C 359, 19.9.2022.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/465/oj
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