CELEX: C2004/094/49
Language: en
Date: 2004-04-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-71/04: Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Tribunal Supremo, Contentious-Administrative Chamber, Third Division, by order of that Court of 22 December 2003, rectified by order of 22 January 2004, in the case of Administración del Estado against Junta de Galicia

17.4.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 94/23
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Tribunal Supremo, Contentious-Administrative Chamber, Third Division, by order of that Court of 22 December 2003, rectified by order of 22 January 2004, in the case of Administración del Estado against Junta de Galicia
   (Case C-71/04)
   (2004/C 94/49)
   Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Communities by order of the Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court), Contentious-Administrative Chamber, Third Division, of 22 December 2003, rectified by order of 22 January 2004, received at the Court Registry on 16 February 2004, for a preliminary ruling in the case of Administración del Estado against Junta de Galicia on the following question:
   Do Article 87(1) and (3)(c) and (d) (previously Article 92(1) and (3)(c) and (d)) and Article 88(3) (previously Article 93(3)) of the EC Treaty, in conjunction with Council Directive 90/684/EEC of 21 December 1990 (1) on aid to shipbuilding, permit the adoption, without prior notification to the Commission of the European Communities, of national rules – of the kind contained in Decree 217/1994 of 23 June 1994 of the Xunta de Galicia – which establish a ‘new system of aid’ for a specific shipbuilding and ship conversion sector, being precisely that sector which, by virtue of the gross tonnage, power and other characteristics of the vessels concerned, does not fall within the scope of the said Directive 90/684?
   
      (1)  OJ L 380 of 31.12.1990, p. 27.