CELEX: 62010CA0361
Language: en
Date: 2011-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-361/10: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 9 June 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — Belgium) — Intercommunale Intermosane SCRL, Fédération de l’industrie et du gaz v État belge (Internal market — Technical standards and regulations — Procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and rules on Information Society services — Minimum safety requirements for certain old electrical installations at places of work)

30.7.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 226/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 9 June 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — Belgium) — Intercommunale Intermosane SCRL, Fédération de l’industrie et du gaz v État belge
   (Case C-361/10) (1)
   
   (Internal market - Technical standards and regulations - Procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and rules on Information Society services - Minimum safety requirements for certain old electrical installations at places of work)
   2011/C 226/13
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Conseil d’État
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Intercommunale Intermosane SCRL, Fédération de l’industrie et du gaz
   
      Defendant: État belge
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Conseil d’État — Interpretation of Article 1(11) and the first subparagraph of Article 8(1) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (OJ 1998 L 204, p. 37) — Procedure for the provision of information and rules on information society services — Obligation to notify draft technical regulations — Minimum safety requirements for certain old electrical installations at places of work
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 1(11) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society services, as amended by Directive 98/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 July 1998, must be interpreted as meaning that national provisions such as those at issue in the main proceedings do not amount to technical regulations, within the meaning of that provision, the drafts of which must be the subject of the communication provided for in the first subparagraph of Article 8(1) of that directive.
   
      (1)  OJ C 274, 9.10.2010.