CELEX: 62016CN0004
Language: en
Date: 2016-01-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-4/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie (Poland) lodged on 4 January 2016 — J.D. v Prezes Urzędu Regulacji Energetyki

29.3.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 111/7
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie (Poland) lodged on 4 January 2016 — J.D. v Prezes Urzędu Regulacji Energetyki
   (Case C-4/16)
   (2016/C 111/09)
   Language of the case: Polish
   
      Referring court
   
   Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: J.D.
   
      Respondent: Prezes Urzędu Regulacji Energetyki
   
      Question referred
   
   Is the term ‘hydropower’ as a renewable energy source, set out in Article 2(a) of Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC, (1) in conjunction with Article 5(3) thereof and recital 30 in the preamble thereto, to be interpreted as relating only to energy produced by a hydroelectric power station using the downward flow of inland surface waters, including rivers, or as relating also to energy produced in a hydroelectric power station (which is not a pure pumped-storage or mixed-power station) sited at the point of discharge of industrial waste water from another plant?
   
      (1)  OJ 2009 L 140, p. 16.