CELEX: 62007CA0169
Language: en
Date: 2009-03-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-169/07: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 10 March 2009 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria)) — Hartlauer Handelsgesellschaft mbH v Wiener Landesregierung, Oberösterreichische Landesregierung (Freedom of establishment — Social security — National health system financed by the State — System of benefits in kind — System of reimbursement of costs paid by the person insured — Authorisation to set up a private outpatient dental clinic — Criterion of assessment of the need to set up a health institution — Objective of maintaining a balanced high-quality medical or hospital service open to all — Objective of preventing a risk of serious harm to the financial balance of the social security system — Consistency — Proportionality)

16.5.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 113/4
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 10 March 2009 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria)) — Hartlauer Handelsgesellschaft mbH v Wiener Landesregierung, Oberösterreichische Landesregierung
   (Case C-169/07) (1)
   
   (Freedom of establishment - Social security - National health system financed by the State - System of benefits in kind - System of reimbursement of costs paid by the person insured - Authorisation to set up a private outpatient dental clinic - Criterion of assessment of the need to set up a health institution - Objective of maintaining a balanced high-quality medical or hospital service open to all - Objective of preventing a risk of serious harm to the financial balance of the social security system - Consistency - Proportionality)
   2009/C 113/07
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Verwaltungsgerichtshof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Hartlauer Handelsgesellschaft mbH
   
      Defendants: Wiener Landesregierung, Oberösterreichische Landesregierung
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Interpretation of Articles 43 EC and 48 EC — Authorisation of a private hospital to provide outpatient dental medicine — Authorisation subject to an assessment of the needs of the market
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Articles 43 EC and 48 EC preclude national legislation such as that at issue in the main proceedings under which authorisation is necessary for the setting up of a private health institution in the form of an independent outpatient dental clinic, and authorisation must be refused if there is no need for that outpatient clinic, having regard to the care already offered by contractual practitioners, where that legislation does not also subject group practices to such a system and is not based on a condition capable of adequately circumscribing the exercise by the national authorities of their discretion.
   
      (1)  OJ C 155, 7.7.2007.