CELEX: 62014CA0001
Language: en
Date: 2015-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Case C-1/14: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Grondwettelijk Hof — Belgium) — Base Company NV, formerly KPN Group Belgium NV, Mobistar NV v Ministerraad (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Electronic communications networks and services — Directive 2002/22/EC — Articles 4, 9, 13 and 32 — Universal service obligations and social obligations — Provision of access at a fixed location and provision of telephone services — Affordability of tariffs — Special tariff options — Financing of the universal service obligations — Additional mandatory services — Mobile communication services and/or internet subscription services)

20150731005616572015/C 270/0612014CJC27020150817EN01ENINFO_JUDICIAL201506115622Case C-1/14: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Grondwettelijk Hof — Belgium) — Base Company NV, formerly KPN Group Belgium NV, Mobistar NV v Ministerraad (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Electronic communications networks and services — Directive 2002/22/EC — Articles 4, 9, 13 and 32 — Universal service obligations and social obligations — Provision of access at a fixed location and provision of telephone services — Affordability of tariffs — Special tariff options — Financing of the universal service obligations — Additional mandatory services — Mobile communication services and/or internet subscription services)
 ---documentbreak--- C2702015EN520120150611EN00065262Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Grondwettelijk Hof — Belgium) — Base Company NV, formerly KPN Group Belgium NV, Mobistar NV v Ministerraad
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   ‛(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Electronic communications networks and services — Directive 2002/22/EC — Articles 4, 9, 13 and 32 — Universal service obligations and social obligations — Provision of access at a fixed location and provision of telephone services — Affordability of tariffs — Special tariff options — Financing of the universal service obligations — Additional mandatory services — Mobile communication services and/or internet subscription services)’2015/C 270/06Language of the case: Dutch
      Referring court
   
   Grondwettelijk Hof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Base Company NV, formerly KPN Group Belgium NV, Mobistar NV
   
      Defendant: Ministerraad
   
      Intervener: Belgacom NV
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Directive 2002/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic communications networks and services (Universal Service Directive), as amended by Directive 2009/136/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009, must be interpreted as meaning that the special tariffs and the financing mechanism provided for in Articles 9 and 13(1)(b) of that directive respectively apply to internet subscription services requiring a connection to the internet at a fixed location, but not to mobile communication services, including internet subscription services provided by means of those mobile communication services. If those services are made publicly available within the national territory as ‘additional mandatory services’ for the purposes of Article 32 of Directive 2002/22, as amended by Directive 2009/136, they cannot be financed, under national law, by a mechanism involving specific undertakings.
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      )	OJ C 102, 7.4.2014.