CELEX: 62013CN0256
Language: en
Date: 2013-05-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-256/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep te Antwerpen (Belgium) lodged on 10 May 2013 — Provincie Antwerpen v Belgacom NV van publiek recht

20.7.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 207/26
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep te Antwerpen (Belgium) lodged on 10 May 2013 — Provincie Antwerpen v Belgacom NV van publiek recht
   (Case C-256/13)
   2013/C 207/42
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Hof van beroep te Antwerpen
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: Provincie Antwerpen
   
      Respondent: Belgacom NV van publiek recht
   
      Question referred
   
   Must Article 6 and/or Article 13 of Directive 2002/20/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on the authorisation of electronic communications networks and services (Authorisation Directive) be interpreted as precluding a public authority of a Member State from being allowed to tax, for budgetary or other reasons, the economic activity of telecommunications operators which arises in the territory or a part thereof through the presence on public or private property of GSM masts, pylons or antennae which are used for that activity?
   
      (1)  OJ 2002 L 108, p. 21.