CELEX: 62016CN0099
Language: en
Date: 2016-02-19 00:00:00
Title: Case C-99/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de grande instance de Lyon (France) lodged on 19 February 2016 — Jean-Philippe Lahorgue v Ordre des avocats du barreau de Lyon, Conseil national des barreaux ‘CNB’, Conseil des barreaux européens ‘CCBE’, Ordre des avocats du barreau de Luxembourg

10.5.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 165/7
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de grande instance de Lyon (France) lodged on 19 February 2016 — Jean-Philippe Lahorgue v Ordre des avocats du barreau de Lyon, Conseil national des barreaux ‘CNB’, Conseil des barreaux européens ‘CCBE’, Ordre des avocats du barreau de Luxembourg
   (Case C-99/16)
   (2016/C 165/08)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal de grande instance de Lyon
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Jean-Philippe Lahorgue
   
      Defendants: Ordre des avocats du barreau de Lyon, Conseil national des barreaux ‘CNB’, Conseil des barreaux européens ‘CCBE’, Ordre des avocats du barreau de Luxembourg
   
      Question referred
   
   Is the refusal to issue a secure router for accessing the Private Virtual Network for Lawyers (RPVA) to a lawyer duly registered at the Bar of a Member State in which he wishes to practise his profession as a free provider of services contrary to Article 4 of Directive 77/249/EC, (1) on the basis that it constitutes a discriminatory measure which could impede the practice of his profession as a free provider of services?
   
      (1)  Council Directive 77/249/EEC of 22 March 1977 to facilitate the effective exercise by lawyers of freedom to provide services (OJ 1977 L 78, p. 17).