CELEX: 62009CN0375
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Case C-375/09: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Najwyższy (Republic of Poland), lodged on 23 September 2009 — Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów v Tele2 Polska sp. z o.o., now Netia S.A.

5.12.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 297/19
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Najwyższy (Republic of Poland), lodged on 23 September 2009 — Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów v Tele2 Polska sp. z o.o., now Netia S.A.
   (Case C-375/09)
   2009/C 297/25
   Language of the case: Polish
   
      Referring court
   
   Sąd Najwyższy
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów
   
      Respondent: Tele2 Polska sp. z o.o., now Netia S.A.
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Is Article 5 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implementation of the rules on competition laid down in Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty (1) to be interpreted as meaning that a national competition authority cannot take a decision stating that a practice does not restrict competition within the meaning of Article 82 EC in a case in which it has found, after conducting proceedings, that the undertaking did not breach the prohibition of abuse of a dominant position under that Treaty provision?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If the answer to the first question is in the affirmative: in a situation in which, under national competition law — if it should be established that the practice of an undertaking does not infringe the prohibition in Article 82 EC — a national competition authority may bring cartel proceedings to an end only by taking a decision which states that the practice does not restrict competition, is the third sentence of Article 5 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implementation of the rules on competition laid down in Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty to be interpreted as constituting a direct legal basis for that authority to ‘decide that there are no grounds for action on [its] part’?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 2003 L 1, p. 1.