CELEX: 62019CN0378
Language: en
Date: 2019-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-378/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Ústavný súd Slovenskej republiky (Slovakia) lodged on 14 May 2019 — Prezident Slovenskej republiky

15.7.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 238/11
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Ústavný súd Slovenskej republiky (Slovakia) lodged on 14 May 2019 — Prezident Slovenskej republiky
      (Case C-378/19)
      (2019/C 238/15)
      Language of the case: Slovak
      
         Referring court
      
      Ústavný súd Slovenskej republiky
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Prezident Slovenskej republiky
      
         Questions referred
      
      
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                  Can Article 35(4) of Directive 2009/72/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC be interpreted, in particular in the light of recital 33 thereof, as precluding, in a Member State, in the context of the amendment of a national measure transposing that directive, the power to nominate and dismiss the chairman of the Regulatory Authority from being withdrawn from the President of the Republic, who is directly elected by the citizens, and conferred instead on the Government, with the result that the legal situation which existed prior to the transposition of the directive is restored?
               
            
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                  Is it possible to interpret Article 35(5) of Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC, in particular in the light of recital 34 thereof, as precluding a rule of national law which, in order to ensure defence of the public interest, permits ministers to take part in the tariff regulation procedure at the Regulatory Authority?
               
            
         (1)  OJ 2009 L 211, p. 55.