CELEX: 62013CA0083
Language: en
Date: 2014-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-83/13: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 8 July 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Arbetsdomstolen — Sweden) — Fonnship A/S, Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet v Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet, Fonnship A/S, Facket för Service och Kommunikation (SEKO) (Maritime transport — Freedom to provide services — Regulation (EEC) No 4055/86 — Applicability to transport carried out from or to States that are parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) using vessels flying the flag of a third country — Industrial action taken in the ports of such a State in favour of third country nationals employed on those vessels — Nationality of those workers and vessels having no bearing on the applicability of EU law)

15.9.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 315/9
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 8 July 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Arbetsdomstolen — Sweden) — Fonnship A/S, Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet v Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet, Fonnship A/S, Facket för Service och Kommunikation (SEKO)
   (Case C-83/13) (1)
   
   ((Maritime transport - Freedom to provide services - Regulation (EEC) No 4055/86 - Applicability to transport carried out from or to States that are parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) using vessels flying the flag of a third country - Industrial action taken in the ports of such a State in favour of third country nationals employed on those vessels - Nationality of those workers and vessels having no bearing on the applicability of EU law))
   2014/C 315/13
   Language of the case: Swedish
   
      Referring court
   
   Arbetsdomstolen
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Fonnship A/S, Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet
   
      Defendants: Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet, Fonnship A/S, Facket för Service och ommunikation (SEKO)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4055/86 of 22 December 1986 applying the principle of freedom to provide services to maritime transport between Member States and between Member States and third countries must be interpreted as meaning that a company established in a State that is a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area of 2 May 1992 and which is proprietor of a vessel flying the flag of a third country, by which maritime transport services are provided from or to a State that is a party to the EEA Agreement, may rely on the freedom to provide services, provided that it can, due to its operation of that vessel, be classed as a provider of those services and that the persons for whom the services are intended are established in States that are parties to the EEA Agreement other than that in which that company is established.
   
      (1)  OJ C 114, 20.4.2013.