CELEX: 62019CA0360
Language: en
Date: 2020-10-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-360/19: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — Crown Van Gelder BV v Autoriteit Consument en Markt (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Internal market for electricity — Directive 2009/72/EC — Article 37 — Duties and powers of the regulatory authority — Out-of-court dispute settlement — Concept of ‘party having a complaint’ — Complaint submitted by a final customer against the operator of a transmission system to which that customer’s installation is not directly connected — Failure on the grid — No contractual relationship between that customer and the operator of that grid — Admissibility of the complaint)

30.11.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 414/8
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — Crown Van Gelder BV v Autoriteit Consument en Markt
      (Case C-360/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Internal market for electricity - Directive 2009/72/EC - Article 37 - Duties and powers of the regulatory authority - Out-of-court dispute settlement - Concept of ‘party having a complaint’ - Complaint submitted by a final customer against the operator of a transmission system to which that customer’s installation is not directly connected - Failure on the grid - No contractual relationship between that customer and the operator of that grid - Admissibility of the complaint)
      (2020/C 414/08)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Crown Van Gelder BV
      
         Defendant: Autoriteit Consument en Markt
      
         Other party: TenneT TSO BV
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 37(11) of Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC must be interpreted as meaning that the regulatory authority may not dismiss a complaint submitted by a final customer against the operator of a transmission system, following a power failure in that system, on the ground that that final customer’s installation is connected not to that transmission system directly, but only to a distribution system fed by it.
      
         (1)  OJ C 270, 12.8.2019.