CELEX: 62018CA0209
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-209/18: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 29 July 2019 — European Commission v Republic of Austria (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Directive 2006/123/EC and Articles 49 and 56 TFEU — Restrictions and requirements relating to the location of the registered office, legal form, shareholding and multidisciplinary activities of partnerships and companies of civil engineers, patent agents and veterinary surgeons)

23.9.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 319/15
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 29 July 2019 — European Commission v Republic of Austria
      (Case C-209/18) (1)
      
      (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Infringement of Directive 2006/123/EC and Articles 49 and 56 TFEU - Restrictions and requirements relating to the location of the registered office, legal form, shareholding and multidisciplinary activities of partnerships and companies of civil engineers, patent agents and veterinary surgeons)
      (2019/C 319/15)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: European Commission (represented by: G. Braun and H. Tserepa-Lacombe, Agents)
      
         Defendant: Republic of Austria (represented by: G. Hesse, Agent)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented initially by T. Henze and D. Klebs and subsequently by D. Klebs, Agents)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                  Declares that, by maintaining the requirements relating to the location of the seat for partnerships and companies of civil engineers and patent agents, the requirements relating to legal form and shareholding for partnerships and companies of civil engineers, patent agents and veterinary surgeons, and the restriction of multidisciplinary activities for partnerships and companies of civil engineers and patent agents, the Republic of Austria has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 14(1), Article 15(1), (2)(b) and (c), and (3), and Article 25 of Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market;
               
            
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                  Orders the Republic of Austria to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
               
            
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                  Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 190, 4.6.2018.