CELEX: 62017CA0171
Language: en
Date: 2018-11-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-171/17: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 7 November 2018 — Commission v Hungary (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2006/123/EC — Articles 15 to 17 — Article 49 TFEU — Freedom of establishment — Article 56 TFEU — Freedom to provide services — National mobile payment system — Monopoly)

14.1.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 16/9
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 7 November 2018 — Commission v Hungary
      (Case C-171/17) (1)
      
      ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/123/EC - Articles 15 to 17 - Article 49 TFEU - Freedom of establishment - Article 56 TFEU - Freedom to provide services - National mobile payment system - Monopoly))
      (2019/C 16/10)
      Language of the case: Hungarian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: European Commission (represented by: V. Bottka and H. Tserepa-Lacombe, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: Hungary (represented by: M.Z. Fehér and G. Koós, acting as Agents)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                  Declares that, by instituting and maintaining in force the national mobile payment system governed by a nemzeti mobil fizetési rendszerről szóló 2011. évi CC. törvény (Law CC of 2011 on the national mobile payment system) and by 356/2012. (XII. 13.) Korm. rendelet a nemzeti mobil fizetési rendszerről szóló törvény végrehajtásáról (Governmental Decree No 356/2012 implementing the mobile payment system law), Hungary has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 15(2)(d) of Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market and Article 56 TFEU;
               
            
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                  Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
               
            
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                  Orders the European Commission and Hungary to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 231, 17.7.2017.