CELEX: 62018CA0578
Language: en
Date: 2020-01-23 00:00:00
Title: Case C-578/18: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 23 January 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein hallinto-oikeus — Finland) — Proceedings brought by Energiavirasto (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Internal market in electricity — Directive 2009/72/EC — Article 3 — Consumer protection — Article 37 — Tasks and powers of the regulatory authority — Out-of-court dispute settlement — Concept of ‘party’ — Right to appeal against a decision of the regulatory authority — Complaint made by a household customer against an electricity distribution system operator)

9.3.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 77/5
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 23 January 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein hallinto-oikeus — Finland) — Proceedings brought by Energiavirasto
      (Case C-578/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Internal market in electricity - Directive 2009/72/EC - Article 3 - Consumer protection - Article 37 - Tasks and powers of the regulatory authority - Out-of-court dispute settlement - Concept of ‘party’ - Right to appeal against a decision of the regulatory authority - Complaint made by a household customer against an electricity distribution system operator)
      (2020/C 77/06)
      Language of the case: Finnish
      
         Referring court
      
      Korkein hallinto-oikeus
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      Energiavirasto
      
         Intervener: A, Caruna Oy
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 37 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 it does not require Member States to confer competence on the regulatory authority to settle disputes between household customers and system operators and, consequently, to grant household customers who have lodged a complaint with the regulatory authority against a system operator the status of ‘party’ within the meaning of that provision, and the right to appeal against the decision taken by that authority following that complaint.
      
         (1)  OJ C 427, 26.11.2018.