Case C-665/22, Amazon Services Europe: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 30 May 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per il Lazio – Italy) – Amazon Services Europe Sàrl v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Freedom to provide services – Providers of information society services – Obligation to provide information on the economic situation of a provider of online intermediation services – Directive 2000/31/EC – Coordinated field – Principle of control in the home Member State – Exemptions – Concept of measures taken against a given information society service – Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 – Objective)
Date: 2024-05-30
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: administrative transparency, disclosure of information, freedom to provide services, information society, provision of services, right of establishment, sanction (EU), search engine, trade information, trade intermediary








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C/2024/4295


15.7.2024






Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 30 May 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per il Lazio – Italy) – Amazon Services Europe Sàrl v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni


(Case C-665/22,
                (1)
Amazon Services Europe)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Freedom to provide services - Providers of information society services - Obligation to provide information on the economic situation of a provider of online intermediation services - Directive 2000/31/EC - Coordinated field - Principle of control in the home Member State - Exemptions - Concept of measures ‘taken against a given information society service’ - Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 - Objective)
(C/2024/4295)
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per il Lazio

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Amazon Services Europe Sàrl

Defendant: Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni

Operative part of the judgment

Article 3 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 (‘Directive on electronic commerce’),
must be interpreted as precluding measures adopted by a Member State, with the stated aim of ensuring the adequate and effective enforcement of Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services, under which, on pain of penalties, providers of online intermediation services established in another Member State are subject, with a view to providing their services in the first Member State, to the obligation to send periodically to an authority of that Member State a document relating to their economic situation, in which it is necessary to set out a large amount of information relating, in particular, to the revenues of the service provider.


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            OJ C 63, 20.2.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/4295/oj
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