CELEX: C2007/155/15
Language: en
Date: 2007-07-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-169/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 30 March 2007 — Hartlauer Handelsgesellschaft mbH v Wiener Landesregierung and Oberösterreichische Landesregierung

7.7.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 155/8
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 30 March 2007 — Hartlauer Handelsgesellschaft mbH v Wiener Landesregierung and Oberösterreichische Landesregierung
   (Case C-169/07)
   (2007/C 155/15)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Administrative Court)
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Hartlauer Handelsgesellschaft mbH
   
      Defendant: Wiener Landesregierung and Oberösterreichische Landesregierung
   Questions referred
   
               1.
            
            
               Does Article 43 EC (in conjunction with Article 48 EC) preclude the application of national legislation under which authorisation is required to set up a private hospital in the form of an independent outpatient clinic for dental medicine (dental clinic) and that authorisation is to be refused if, according to the stated purpose of the institution and the range of services envisaged, there is no need for the planned outpatient dental clinic having regard to the existing provision of care by established doctors working on a contractual basis with sickness funds, institutions owned by sickness funds and institutions contracted to sickness funds and by established dentists working on a contractual basis with sickness funds?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Is the answer to Question 1 any different if the existing provision of care by outpatient clinics of public, private non-profit making and other hospitals working on a contractual basis with sickness funds is also to be included in the examination as to need?