CELEX: 62017CA0299
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-299/17: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 12 September 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Berlin — Germany) — VG Media Gesellschaft zur Verwertung der Urheber- und Leistungsschutzrechte von Medienunternehmen mbH v Google LLC, successor in law to Google Inc. (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Industrial policy – Approximation of laws – Directive 98/34/EC – Procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society services – Article 1(11) – Concept of ‘technical regulation’)

11.11.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 383/7
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 12 September 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Berlin — Germany) — VG Media Gesellschaft zur Verwertung der Urheber- und Leistungsschutzrechte von Medienunternehmen mbH v Google LLC, successor in law to Google Inc.
      (Case C-299/17) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Industrial policy - Approximation of laws - Directive 98/34/EC - Procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society services - Article 1(11) - Concept of ‘technical regulation’)
      (2019/C 383/05)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Landgericht Berlin
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: VG Media Gesellschaft zur Verwertung der Urheber- und Leistungsschutzrechte von Medienunternehmen mbH
      
         Defendant: Google LLC, successor in law to Google Inc.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 1(11) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society services (as amended by Directive 98/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 July 1998), must be interpreted as meaning that a provision of national law, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which prohibits only commercial operators of search engines and commercial service providers that similarly publish content from making newspapers or magazines or parts thereof (excluding individual words and very short text excerpts) available to the public, constitutes a ‘technical regulation’ within the meaning of that provision, the draft of which is subject to prior notification to the Commission pursuant to the first subparagraph of Article 8(1) of Directive 98/34, as amended by Directive 98/48.
      
         (1)  OJ C 309, 18.9.2017.