CELEX: 62019CA0034
Language: en
Date: 2020-03-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-34/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 4 March 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per il Lazio — Italy) — Telecom Italia SpA v Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico and Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Approximation of laws — Telecommunication services — Implementation of provision of an open telecommunications network — Directive 97/13/EC — Fees and charges for individual licences — Transitional arrangements establishing a charge beyond those authorised by Directive 97/13/EC — Force of res judicata attaching to a higher court judgment considered contrary to EU law)

11.5.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 161/9
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 4 March 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per il Lazio — Italy) — Telecom Italia SpA v Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico and Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze
      (Case C-34/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Approximation of laws - Telecommunication services - Implementation of provision of an open telecommunications network - Directive 97/13/EC - Fees and charges for individual licences - Transitional arrangements establishing a charge beyond those authorised by Directive 97/13/EC - Force of res judicata attaching to a higher court judgment considered contrary to EU law)
      (2020/C 161/13)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunale amministrativo regionale per il Lazio
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Telecom Italia SpA
      
         Defendants: Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico and Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      
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                  Article 22(3) of Directive 97/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 April 1997 on a common framework for general authorisations and individual licences in the field of telecommunications services must be interpreted as precluding national legislation extending the obligation, in respect of 1998, imposed on a telecommunications undertaking holding an existing authorisation on the date of entry into force of that directive to pay a charge calculated on the basis of turnover and not merely the administrative costs incurred in the issue, management, control and enforcement of the applicable general authorisation scheme and individual licences;
               
            
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                  EU law must be interpreted as not requiring a national court to disapply domestic rules of procedure conferring finality on a judgment, even if to do so would make it possible to remedy an infringement of a provision of EU law, without prejudice to the possibility for the parties concerned of rendering the State liable in order to obtain legal protection of their rights under EU law.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 182, 27.5.2019.