CELEX: 62020CA0325
Language: en
Date: 2021-07-15 00:00:00
Title: Case C-325/20: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 15 July 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — BEMH, Conseil national des centres commerciaux v Premier ministre, Ministère de l’Économie, des Finances et de la Relance, Ministre de la cohésion des territoires et des relations avec les collectivités territoriales (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2006/123/EC — Article 14(6) — Freedom of establishment — Commercial operating permit issued by a collegiate body — Body made up of, inter alia, recognised experts representative of the economic fabric — Persons potentially constituting or representing competing operators of the applicant for authorisation — Prohibition)

30.8.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 349/11
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 15 July 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — BEMH, Conseil national des centres commerciaux v Premier ministre, Ministère de l’Économie, des Finances et de la Relance, Ministre de la cohésion des territoires et des relations avec les collectivités territoriales
      (Case C-325/20) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 2006/123/EC - Article 14(6) - Freedom of establishment - Commercial operating permit issued by a collegiate body - Body made up of, inter alia, recognised experts representative of the economic fabric - Persons potentially constituting or representing competing operators of the applicant for authorisation - Prohibition)
      (2021/C 349/14)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Referring court
      
      Conseil d’État
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: BEMH, Conseil national des centres commerciaux
      
         Defendants: Premier ministre, Ministère de l’Économie, des Finances et de la Relance, Ministre de la cohésion des territoires et des relations avec les collectivités territoriales
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 14(6) of Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market must be interpreted as precluding national legislation that permits the presence, within a collegiate body responsible for issuing opinions on the granting of commercial operating permits, of recognised experts representative of the local economic fabric in the relevant catchment area, even if those experts do not take part in the vote on the application for authorisation and merely present the situation of that economic fabric and the impact of the project on that economic fabric, in so far as the actual or potential competitors of the applicant participate in the appointment of those persons.
      
         (1)  OJ C 339, 12.10.2020.