CELEX: 62016CN0159
Language: en
Date: 2016-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-159/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākā tiesa (Latvia) lodged on 17 March 2016 — VAS ‘Starptautiskā lidosta “Rīga”’ v Konkurences padome

30.5.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 191/15
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākā tiesa (Latvia) lodged on 17 March 2016 — VAS ‘Starptautiskā lidosta “Rīga”’ v Konkurences padome
   (Case C-159/16)
   (2016/C 191/19)
   Language of the case: Latvian
   
      Referring court
   
   Augstākā tiesa
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: VAS ‘Starptautiskā lidosta “Rīga”’
   
      Defendant: Konkurences padome
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Must Articles 102 and 107(1) TFEU be interpreted as meaning that one and the same action of a State-owned undertaking may simultaneously be analysed from the point of view of the existence of State aid (as regards the possible grant of State aid to a client or trading partner) and from the point of view of abuse of a dominant position (discriminatory pricing)?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Is there any order for or hierarchy of these two analyses?
            
         
               3.
            
            
               May a public authority or court considering a case on infringement of competition rules with regard to the application of discriminatory pricing to the clients or trading partners of a State-owned undertaking declare that the actions of an economic operator infringe Article 102 TFEU if that infringement arises as a result of State aid being granted without complying with the preliminary examination procedure laid down in Article 108(3) TFEU?