CELEX: 62018CA0379
Language: en
Date: 2019-11-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-379/18: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 21 November 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Germany) — Deutsche Lufthansa AG v Land Berlin (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Air transport — Directive 2009/12/EC — Articles 3 and 6 — Article 11(1) and (7) — Airport charges — Protection of airport users’ rights — Whether it is possible for the airport managing body to agree charges lower than those approved by the independent supervisory authority — Remedies available to an airport user — Collateral challenge before a civil court giving judgment on the basis of equitable criteria)

27.1.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 27/5
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 21 November 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Germany) — Deutsche Lufthansa AG v Land Berlin
      (Case C-379/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Air transport - Directive 2009/12/EC - Articles 3 and 6 - Article 11(1) and (7) - Airport charges - Protection of airport users’ rights - Whether it is possible for the airport managing body to agree charges lower than those approved by the independent supervisory authority - Remedies available to an airport user - Collateral challenge before a civil court giving judgment on the basis of equitable criteria)
      (2020/C 27/05)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Bundesverwaltungsgericht
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Deutsche Lufthansa AG
      
         Defendant: Land Berlin
      
         Interveners: Berliner Flughafen GmbH, Vertreter des Bundesinteresses beim Bundesverwaltungsgericht
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      
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                  Directive 2009/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on airport charges, in particular Article 3, Article 6(5)(a) and Article 11(1) and (7) thereof, must be interpreted as precluding a national provision that allows an airport managing body to determine, together with an airport user, airport charges different from those set by that body and approved by the independent supervisory authority, within the meaning of that directive.
               
            
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                  Directive 2009/12 must be interpreted as precluding an interpretation of national law whereby an airport user is prevented from challenging directly the decision of the independent supervisory authority approving the charging system, but can bring an action against the airport managing body before a civil court and can plead in that action only that the charges determined in the charging system that that user must pay are inequitable.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 276, 6.8.2018.