CELEX: 62011CN0580
Language: en
Date: 2011-11-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-580/11: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo (Spain) lodged on 21 November 2011 — Tarragona Power S.L. v Gas Natural SDG, S.A., Spanish State, Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico, S.A. and Endesa, S.A.

11.2.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 39/10
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo (Spain) lodged on 21 November 2011 — Tarragona Power S.L. v Gas Natural SDG, S.A., Spanish State, Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico, S.A. and Endesa, S.A.
   (Case C-580/11)
   2012/C 39/17
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal Supremo
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: Tarragona Power S.L.
   
      Other parties: Gas Natural SDG, S.A., Spanish State, Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico, S.A. and Endesa, S.A.
   
      Question referred
   
   May Article 10 of Directive 2003/87/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC be interpreted as not preventing application of national legislative measures of the kind under review in these proceedings, the purpose and effect of which are to reduce remuneration for the activity of electricity production by an amount equivalent to the value of the greenhouse gas emission allowances allocated free of charge during the relevant period?
   
      (1)  OJ 2003 L 275, p. 32.