CELEX: 62017CA0702
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-702/17: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 21 March 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Unareti SpA v Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico and Others (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Internal market in natural gas — Public service distribution concessions — Early cessation of concessions at the end of a transitional period — Reimbursement by the incoming concessionaire to the outgoing concessionaire — Principle of legal certainty)

3.6.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 187/23
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 21 March 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Unareti SpA v Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico and Others
      (Case C-702/17) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Internal market in natural gas - Public service distribution concessions - Early cessation of concessions at the end of a transitional period - Reimbursement by the incoming concessionaire to the outgoing concessionaire - Principle of legal certainty)
      (2019/C 187/26)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Referring court
      
      Consiglio di Stato
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Unareti SpA
      
         Defendants: Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri — Dipartimento per gli Affari Regionali, Autorità Garante per l’Energia Elettrica il Gas e il Sistema Idrico — Sede di Milano, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri — Conferenza Stato Regioni ed Unificata — Ministero per gli affari regionali — Dipartimento per gli affari regionali e le autonomie, Conferenza Unificata Stato Regioni e Enti Locali
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      EU law on public service concessions, read in the light of the principle of legal certainty, must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which amends the basic criteria for the calculation of the reimbursement to which holders of natural gas distribution concessions award without be put out for tender on account of the early termination of those concessions in order to award them again after being put out for tender.
      
         (1)  OJ C 112, 26.3.2018.