CELEX: 62013CN0346
Language: en
Date: 2013-06-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-346/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Mons (Belgium) lodged on 25 June 2013 — Ville de Mons v KPN Group Belgium SA

31.8.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 252/22
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Mons (Belgium) lodged on 25 June 2013 — Ville de Mons v KPN Group Belgium SA
   (Case C-346/13)
   2013/C 252/35
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Cour d’appel de Mons
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: Ville de Mons
   
      Respondent: KPN Group Belgium SA
   
      Question referred
   
   Does Article 13 of Directive 2002/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on the authorisation of electronic communications networks and services [(the ‘Authorisation Directive’)] (1) preclude local authorities from introducing a tax, for budgetary or other reasons, on the economic activity of telecommunications operators, in the form of the presence on their territory of GSM pylons, masts or antennas used for the purposes of that activity?
   
      (1)  OJ 2002 L 108, p. 21.