CELEX: 62009CA0119
Language: en
Date: 2011-04-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-119/09: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 5 April 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Société fiduciaire nationale d’expertise comptable v Ministre du Budget, des Comptes publics et de la Fonction publique (Freedom to provide services — Directive 2006/123/EC — Article 24 — Prohibition of total prohibitions on commercial communications by the regulated professions — Profession of qualified accountant — Prohibition on canvassing)

21.5.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 152/4
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 5 April 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Société fiduciaire nationale d’expertise comptable v Ministre du Budget, des Comptes publics et de la Fonction publique
   (Case C-119/09) (1)
   
   (Freedom to provide services - Directive 2006/123/EC - Article 24 - Prohibition of total prohibitions on commercial communications by the regulated professions - Profession of qualified accountant - Prohibition on canvassing)
   2011/C 152/05
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Conseil d’État
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Société fiduciaire nationale d’expertise comptable
   
      Defendant: Ministre du Budget, des Comptes publics et de la Fonction publique
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Conseil d'État (France) — Interpretation of Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market (OJ 2006 L 376, p. 36) and, specifically, Article 24 thereof relating to commercial communications by the regulated professions — Commercial practice of canvassing — Proscription, in respect of the regulated professions covered by the directive, of any general prohibition, whatever the form of commercial practice concerned, or the option for the Member States to maintain general prohibitions in respect of certain commercial practices, such as canvassing
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 24(1) 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 which totally prohibits the members of a regulated profession, such as the profession of qualified accountant, from engaging in canvassing.
   
      (1)  OJ C 141, 20.6.2009.