CELEX: 62018CA0523
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Case C-523/18: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 19 December 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Nacional — Spain) — Engie Cartagena SL v Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica, formerly Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Internal market in electricity — Common rules — Directive 2003/54/EC — Article 3(2) — Directive 2009/72/EC — Article 3(2) — Public service obligations — Meaning — National rules — Financing of energy efficiency plans — Designation of electricity generating undertakings — Mandatory contribution)

24.2.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 61/12
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 19 December 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Nacional — Spain) — Engie Cartagena SL v Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica, formerly Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo
      (Case C-523/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Internal market in electricity - Common rules - Directive 2003/54/EC - Article 3(2) - Directive 2009/72/EC - Article 3(2) - Public service obligations - Meaning - National rules - Financing of energy efficiency plans - Designation of electricity generating undertakings - Mandatory contribution)
      (2020/C 61/13)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Referring court
      
      Audiencia Nacional
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Engie Cartagena SL
      
         Defendant: Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica, formerly Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: Endesa Generación, SA, EDP España SAU, Bizkaia Energía, SL, Iberdrola Generación SAU, Tarragona Power SL, Bahia de Bizkaia Electricidad SL, Viesgo Generación SL
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 3(2) of Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC must be interpreted as meaning that a financial contribution imposed on certain electricity generating undertakings for the purpose of financing savings and energy efficiency plans managed by a public authority does not constitute a public service obligation falling within that provision.
      
         (1)  OJ C 408, 12.11.2018.