CELEX: 62017CA0473
Language: en
Date: 2019-04-11 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-473/17 and C-546/17: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 11 April 2019 (Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo — Spain) — Repsol Butano SA (C-473/17), DISA Gas SAU (C-546/17) v Administración del Estado (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Energy — Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sector — Consumer protection — Requirement of general economic interest — Maximum price of a bottle of gas — Home delivery obligation — Article 106 TFEU — Directives 2003/55/EC, 2009/73/EC and 2006/123/EC — Interpretation of the judgment of 20 April 2010, Federutility and Others (C-265/08, EU:C:2010:205) — Principle of proportionality)

17.6.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 206/2
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 11 April 2019 (Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo — Spain) — Repsol Butano SA (C-473/17), DISA Gas SAU (C-546/17) v Administración del Estado
      (Joined Cases C-473/17 and C-546/17) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Energy - Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sector - Consumer protection - Requirement of general economic interest - Maximum price of a bottle of gas - Home delivery obligation - Article 106 TFEU - Directives 2003/55/EC, 2009/73/EC and 2006/123/EC - Interpretation of the judgment of 20 April 2010, Federutility and Others (C-265/08, EU:C:2010:205) - Principle of proportionality)
      (2019/C 206/02)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunal Supremo
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Repsol Butano SA (C-473/17), DISA Gas SAU (C-546/17)
      
         Defendant: Administración del Estado
      
         Interveners: Redexis Gas SL, Repsol Butano SA (C-546/17)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The condition of proportionality laid down in Article 15(3)(c) of Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market must be interpreted as not precluding measures such as those at issue in the main proceedings, which set a maximum price for bottled liquefied petroleum gas and which require certain operators to carry out home delivery of that gas, provided that those measures are maintained only for a limited duration and do not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve the objective of general economic interest pursued.
      
         (1)  OJ C 382, 13.11.2017.
      
         OJ C 412, 4.12.2017.