CELEX: C2004/300/30
Language: en
Date: 2004-12-04 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 5 October 2004 in Case C-442/02 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État): Caixa-Bank France v Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de l'Industrie (Freedom of establishment — Credit institutions — National legislation prohibiting the payment of remuneration on sight accounts)

4.12.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 300/15
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Grand Chamber)
   of 5 October 2004
   in Case C-442/02 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État): Caixa-Bank France v Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de l'Industrie (1)
   
   (Freedom of establishment - Credit institutions - National legislation prohibiting the payment of remuneration on sight accounts)
   (2004/C 300/30)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-442/02: Reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC from the Conseil d'État (France), made by decision of 6 November 2002, received at the Court on 5 December 2002, in the proceedings brought by Caixa-Bank France against Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de l'Industrie, interveners: Banque fédérale des banques populaires and Others — the Court (Grand Chamber), composed of: V. Skouris, President, P. Jann, C.W.A. Timmermans, C. Gulmann, J.-P. Puissochet and J.N. Cunha Rodrigues (Rapporteur), Presidents of Chambers, R. Schintgen, N. Colneric, S. von Bahr, R. Silva de Lapuerta and K. Lenaerts, Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate General; M. Múgica Arzamendi, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 5 October 2004, in which it has ruled:
   Article 43 EC precludes legislation of a Member State which prohibits a credit institution which is a subsidiary of a company from another Member State from remunerating sight accounts in euros opened by residents of the former Member State.
   
      (1)   OJ C 19 du 25.1.2003.