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Herved bemærkes, at den førnævnte beslutning indebærer, at alle udøvere af et liberalt erhverv opretter deres tillægspension på ens vilkår og hos samme organ, dog med undtagelse af referencepensionen, der frit kan tegnes hos et godkendt forsikringsselskab.
In this respect, it must be borne in mind that a decision of the kind just mentioned means that all the members of a profession arrange their supplementary pension with one body and under the same conditions, except for their basic pension, which they may freely obtain from any authorised insurance company.
Under disse omstændigheder må det dernæst undersøges, om LSV skal anses for en sammenslutning af virksomheder i de nævnte bestemmelsers forstand.
The conclusion must be that such a decision, which standardises in part the costs and supplementary pension benefits of medical specialists, restricts competition as far as concerns one cost factor of specialist medical services, inasmuch as one of its effects is that those medical practitioners do not compete with one another to obtain less costly insurance for that part of their pension.
Det må derfor konstateres, at en sådan beslutning, der delvist harmoniserer omkostningerne og ydelserne ved speciallægernes tillægspension, begrænser konkurrencen for så vidt angår omkostningsfaktoren for specielle lægetjenester.
Suffice it to say in this regard that the fact that a professional organisation is governed by a public-law statute does not preclude the application of Article 85 of the Treaty.
I realiteten har denne beslutning til følge, at lægerne ikke konkurrerer med sig selv for at opnå en billigere forsikring for denne del af deres pension.
According to its wording, that provision applies to agreements between undertakings and decisions by associations of undertakings.
De restriktive virkninger af en sådan beslutning på markedet for specielle lægetjenester er imidlertid begrænsede.
However, the restrictive effects of such a decision on the specialist medical services market are limited.
Det er herved tilstrækkeligt at bemærke, at en erhvervsorganisations offentligretlige status ikke er til hinder for anvendelse af traktatens artikel 85. Ifølge ordlyden finder denne bestemmelse anvendelse på aftaler mellem virksomheder og på vedtagelser inden for sammenslutninger af virksomheder.
Nor can the LSV be taken outside the scope of Article 85 of the Treaty by the fact that its main task is to protect the interests of medical specialists, and in particular their income, which is made up in part by supplementary pensions, in negotiations with the Netherlands authorities concerning the cost of medical services.
I modsætning til det er den omstændighed, at LSV har som hovedopgave at varetage speciallægernes interesser, herunder løn og de tilhørende tillægspensioner, i forhandlinger med de offentlige myndigheder om priserne for lægetjenester, endvidere ikke af en sådan art, at denne faglige organisation falder uden for anvendelsesområdet for traktatens artikel 85.
That being so, the LSV must be regarded as an association of undertakings within the meaning of Articles 85, 86 and 90 of the Treaty.
Den anfægtede beslutning har kun restriktive virkninger for så vidt angår en af faktorerne for prisen på de selvstændige speciallægers tjenester, nemlig tillægspensionsordningen, der er uden betydning sammenlignet med andre faktorer, såsom lægehonoraret eller priserne på lægeudstyret.
The decision in question produces restrictive effects only in relation to one cost factor of the services offered by self-employed medical specialists, namely the supplementary pension scheme, which is insignificant in comparison with other factors, such as medical fees or the cost of medical equipment.
Omkostningerne ved tillægspensionsordningen har alene en marginal og indirekte indflydelse på, hvor meget de selvstændige speciallægers tjenester kommer til at koste i sidste ende.
The cost of the supplementary pension scheme has only a marginal and indirect influence on the final cost of the services offered by self-employed medical specialists.
Under disse omstændigheder må det fastslås, at LSV skal anses for en sammenslutning af virksomheder som omhandlet i traktatens artikel 85, 86 og 90.
It follows from the foregoing that a decision by the members of a profession to set up a pension fund entrusted with the management of a supplementary pension scheme does not appreciably restrict competition within the common market.
Det følger af ovenstående, at en beslutning truffet af de erhvervsudøvende inden for et liberalt erhverv om at oprette en pensionsfond, som skal administrere en tillægspensionsordning, ikke begrænser konkurrencen inden for fællesmarkedet mærkbart.
It is therefore necessary to consider, secondly, whether a decision by the members of a liberal profession to set up a pension fund responsible for the management of a supplementary pension scheme and to apply to the public authorities for a decision making membership of the fund compulsory for all members of that profession has as its object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the common market.
Det skal herefter undersøges, om en beslutning truffet af de erhvervsudøvende inden for et liberalt erhverv om at oprette en pensionsfond, som skal administrere en tillægspensionsordning, og om at anmode de offentlige myndigheder om at gøre tilslutning til fonden obligatorisk for alle udøvere af dette erhverv, har til formål eller til følge at hindre, begrænse eller fordreje konkurrencen inden for fællesmarkedet.
It is settled case-law that, in defining the criteria for the application of Article 85(1) of the Treaty to a specific case, account should be taken of the economic context in which undertakings operate,
Med hensyn til den begæring, en repræsentativ organisation for et liberalt erhverv fremsætter over for de offentlige myndigheder om at gøre tilslutning til den af organisationen oprettede
As for the request, made to the public authorities by an organisation representing the members of a profession, to make membership of the occupational pension fund it has set up compulsory, it is made under a scheme identical to those existing under the national law of a number of countries concerning the exercise of regulatory authority in the social domain. Such
En sådan ordning skal fremme oprettelsen af tillægspensioner inden for den anden pensionssøjle og indeholder en række garantier, som ministeren skal sikre respekten af, således at en begæring fra udøverne af et liberalt erhverv ikke strider mod traktatens artikel 85, stk 1.
That solidarity made it necessary for the various schemes to be managed by a single body and for membership of the schemes to be compulsory.
Under disse omstændigheder må det fastslås, at en beslutning truffet af de erhvervsudøvende inden for et liberalt erhverv om at oprette en pensionsfond, som skal administrere en tillægspensionsordning, og om at anmode de offentlige myndigheder om at gøre tilslutning til fonden obligatorisk for alle udøvere af dette erhverv, ikke er i strid med traktatens artikel 85, stk. 1.
That being so, it must be held that a decision by the members of a profession to set up a pension fund entrusted with the management of a supplementary pension scheme and to request the public authorities to make membership of that fund compulsory for all members of the profession, is not contrary to Article 85(1) of the Treaty.
Af samme årsager er den pågældende medlemsstats beslutning om at gøre tilslutningen til en sådan fond obligatorisk for samtlige udøvere af erhvervet heller ikke i strid med traktatens artikel 5 og 85.
Thus, for the same reasons, a decision by the Member State in question to make membership of such a fund compulsory for all members of the profession is not contrary to Articles 5 and 85 of the Treaty either.
Med det første spørgsmål, som herefter skal undersøges, ønsker den forelæggende ret nærmere bestemt oplyst, om en pensionsfond, der administrerer en tillægspensionsordning, og som er oprettet af en repræsentativ organisation for et liberalt erhverv, og hvortil tilslutning er gjort obligatorisk af de offentlige myndigheder for alle udøvere af dette erhverv, er en virksomhed som omhandlet i traktatens artikel 85, 86 og 90.
In contrast, in Fédération Française des Sociétés d'Assurance and Others, cited above, the Court held that a non-profit-making body which managed an old-age pension scheme intended to supplement a basic compulsory scheme, established by law as an optional scheme and operating according to the principle of capitalisation, was an undertaking within the meaning of Articles 85, 86 and 90 of the Treaty.
Det forhold, at medlemskab af ordningen var frivilligt, at ordningen byggede på et kapitaliseringsprincip, og at ydelserne udelukkende afhang af de betalte medlemsbidrag samt af de økonomiske resultater af forvaltningsorganets investeringer, indebar, at organet udøvede en økonomisk virksomhed i konkurrence med livsforsikringsselskaberne.
Neither the social objective pursued, nor the fact that the body was nonprofit-making, nor the requirements of solidarity, nor the other rules concerning, in particular, the restrictions to which it was subject in making investments altered the fact that the managing body was carrying on an economic activity.
Hverken det forhold, at ordningen havde sociale formål og ikke havde gevinst for øje, kravene om solidaritet eller de øvrige regler bl.a om de begrænsninger, forvaltningsorganet var underlagt med hensyn til investeringer, kunne ændre noget ved, at den af forvaltningsorganet udøvede virksomhed var af økonomisk karakter.
By its first question, which it is appropriate to consider secondly, the national court asks essentially whether a pension fund responsible for managing a supplementary pension scheme set up by a profession's representative body and of which membership has been made compulsory by the public authorities for all members of that profession is an undertaking within the meaning of Articles 85, 86 and 90 of the Treaty.
Domstolen har tidligere fastslået, at begrebet virksomhed inden for konkurrenceretten omfatter enhver enhed, som udøver økonomisk virksomhed, uanset denne enheds retlige status og dens finansieringsmåde.
In the context of Community competition law, the Court has held that the concept of an undertaking covers any entity engaged in an economic activity, regardless of the legal status of the entity or the way in which it is financed.
I Poucet og Pistre-dommen fastslog Domstolen endvidere, at det nævnte begreb ikke omfatter organer, der varetager administrationen af visse lovpligtige sociale sikringsordninger, der bygger på et solidaritetsprincip.
The Court held in Albany, Brentjens' and Drijvende Bokken that a pension fund entrusted with the management of a supplementary pension scheme set up by a collective agreement concluded between organisations representing employers and workers in a given sector, of which membership had been made compulsory by the public authorities for all workers in that sector, was an undertaking within the meaning of Article 85 et seq. of the Treaty.
For det første blev der efter den syge- og moderskabsforsikringsordning,
In reaching that conclusion, the Court found that the sectoral pension funds in question in the cases mentioned themselves determined the amount of the contributions and benefits, that they operated in accordance with the principle of capitalisation and that, by contrast with the benefits provided by bodies charged with the management of compulsory social security schemes of the kind in point in Poucet and Pistre, the amount of benefits provided by the funds depended on the performance of the investments
Med det tredje spørgsmål ønsker den forelæggende ret nærmere bestemt oplyst, om traktatens 86 og 90 er til hinder for, at de offentlige myndigheder giver en pensionsfond eneret til at administrere en tillægspensionsordning for udøverne af et liberalt erhverv.
which they made and in respect of which they were subject, like an insurance company, to supervision by the Insurance Board. Furthermore, the fact that a sectoral pension fund was in certain circumstances required or empowered to exempt undertakings from membership meant that it was carrying on an economic activity in competition with insurance companies.
Det fremgår af besvarelsen af første spørgsmål, at Fonden for så vidt angår oprettelsen af en referencepension udgør en virksomhed som omhandlet i traktatens artikel 85, 86 og 90, og at den fungerer i konkurrence med forsikringsselskaber.
It is clear from the answer given to the first question that, as far as the provision of the basic pension is concerned, the Fund constitutes an undertaking within the meaning of Articles 85, 86 and 90 of the Treaty and operates in competition with insurance companies.
For denne del af tillægspensionsordningen har Fonden derfor ikke en eneret som omhandlet i traktatens artikel 90, stk. 1.
As regards that part of the supplementary pension scheme, the Fund does not therefore enjoy any exclusive right within the meaning of Article 90(1) of the Treaty.
Således forholder det sig erhvervspensionsfonden i denne sag.
The same is true of the occupational pension fund at issue in the case in the main proceedings.
Fonden fastsætter selv bidragene og ydelserne og bygger på et kapitaliseringsprincip.
The Fund itself determines the amount of contributions and benefits and operates on the basis of the principle of capitalisation.
Derfor afhænger Fondens ydelser af de økonomiske resultater af de investeringer, Fonden foretager, og som er undergivet forsikringstilsynets kontrol, således som det er tilfældet for et forsikringsselskab.
Thus, the level of benefits provided by the Fund depends on the performance of the investments which it makes and in respect of which it is subject, like an insurance company, to supervision by the Insurance Board.
De offentlige myndigheders beslutning om at gøre tilslutningen til Fonden obligatorisk for så vidt angår anden del af pensionsordningen, der består af dyrtidsreguleringen, pensionsrettigheder med tilbagevirkende kraft, fortsat erhvervelse af pensionsrettigheder ved invaliditet og supplerende ydelser til de efterladte, indebærer nødvendigvis, at Fonden skal have eneret til at opkræve og administrere bidrag, der indbetales med henblik på erhvervelse af pensionsrettigheder.
On the other hand, a decision by the public authorities to make membership of the Fund compulsory as far as it concerns the second part of the pension scheme, which includes the indexation mechanism, retroactive pension rights, the continuing accrual of pension rights in the event of a member's disability and additional survivors' benefits necessarily implies the grant to the Fund of an exclusive right to collect and administer the contributions paid with a view to creating those rights.
En sådan fond må derfor betragtes som en virksomhed, som de offentlige myndigheder har indrømmet eksklusive rettigheder som omhandlet i traktatens artikel 90, stk. 1.
Such a fund must therefore be regarded as an undertaking to which exclusive rights of the kind referred to in Article 90(1) of the Treaty have been granted by the public authorities.
Under disse omstændigheder skal det undersøges, om Fonden har en dominerende stilling på en væsentlig del af fællesmarkedet.
That being so, it is necessary to establish whether the Fund occupies a dominant position on a substantial part of the common market.
Det følger af disse kendetegn, hvortil kommer dels den omstændighed, at speciallægerne kan vælge at oprette deres referencepension hos Fonden eller hos et godkendt forsikringsselskab, dels at fonden for visse grupper af speciallæger har mulighed for at indrømme fritagelse for tilslutning for så vidt angår de øvrige dele af pensionsordningen, at Fonden udøver økonomisk virksomhed i konkurrence med forsikringsselskaberne.
Those characteristics, together with the fact that medical specialists may opt to purchase their basic pension either from the Fund or from an authorised insurance company and the fact that the Fund has power to grant certain categories of medical specialists exemption from membership as regards the other components of the pension scheme, indicate that the Fund carries on an economic activity in competition with insurance companies.
Det må i denne henseende konstateres, at til Fondens eneret til at administrere anden del af den erhvervsmæssige tillægspensionsordning for speciallæger i Nederlandene medfører, at disse ikke har mulighed for at oprette denne del af deres pensionsordning hos en anden forsikringsgiver.
In this regard it is sufficient to note that granting the Fund the exclusive right to manage the second part of the supplementary occupational pension scheme for medical specialists in the Netherlands means that those medical specialists are precluded from arranging that part of their pension scheme with another insurer.
Det forhold, at Fonden ikke handler med gevinst for øje, og de elementer af solidaritet, som Fonden og de regeringer, der har indgivet indlæg, har henvist til, ændrer ikke noget ved, at Fonden er en virksomhed i traktatens konkurrencereglers forstand.
The fact that the Fund is non-profit-making and the solidarity aspects emphasised by the Fund and the governments which have submitted observations are not sufficient to relieve the Fund of its status as an undertaking within the meaning of the competition rules of the Treaty.
Fonden har dermed et lovbestemt monopol på leveringen af visse forsikringstjenester inden for en bestemt erhvervsgren i en medlemsstat og derfor på en væsentlig del af fællesmarkedet.
The Fund therefore has a legal monopoly in the supply of certain insurance services in a professional sector of a Member State and thus on a substantial part of the common market.
Fonden skal således anses for at indtage en dominerende stilling som omhandlet i traktatens artikel 86.
In that respect it must be regarded as occupying a dominant position within the meaning of Article 86 of the Treaty.
Det tredje spørgsmål
A Member State will be in breach of the prohibitions laid down by those two provisions only if the undertaking in question,
Det skal dog bemærkes, at den omstændighed, at der skabes en dominerende stilling ved tildeling af eksklusive rettigheder som omhandlet i traktatens artikel 90, stk. 1, ikke i sig selv er uforenelig med traktatens artikel 86.
merely by exercising the exclusive rights granted to it, is led to abuse its dominant position or where such rights are liable to create a situation in which that undertaking is led to commit such abuses.
Det fremgår hverken af de sagsakter, den nationale ret har fremlagt, eller af de skriftlige og mundtlige indlæg, som Fonden, de regeringer, der er interveneret i sagen, og Kommissionen har indgivet, at Fonden ved den blotte udøvelse af de eksklusive rettigheder, som er indrømmet den, foranlediges til at udnytte sin dominerende stilling på en måde, der er udtryk for misbrug, eller at de pensionsydelser, Fonden tilbyder, ikke svarer til speciallægernes behov.
There is no evidence in the case-file forwarded by the national court or in the written and oral observations made by the Fund, the governments which have submitted observations and the Commission, that the Fund, merely by exercising the exclusive rights granted to it, would be led to abuse its dominant position or that the pension services offered by the Fund might not meet the needs of medical specialists.
En pensionsfond som den i sagen omhandlede, der selv fastsætter bidragene og ydelserne og bygger på et kapitaliseringsprincip, som administrerer en tillægspensionsordning og er oprettet af en repræsentativ organisation for et liberalt erhverv, og hvortil tilslutning er gjort obligatorisk af de offentlige myndigheder for alle udøvere af erhvervet, er en virksomhed som omhandlet i traktatens artikel 85, EF-traktatens artikel 86 og 90 (nu artikel 82 EF og 86 EF).
A pension fund, such as that in question in the main proceedings, which itself determines the amount of the contributions and benefits and operates on the basis of the principle of capitalisation, which has been made responsible for managing a supplementary pension scheme set up by a profession's representative body and membership of which has been made compulsory by the public authorities f or aü members of that profession, is an undertaking within the meaning of Articles 85 of the Treaty and 86 and 90 of the EC Treaty (now Articles 82 EC and 86 EC).
Traktatens artikel 86 og 90 er ikke til hinder for, at de offentlige myndigheder giver en pensionsfond eneret til at administrere en tillægspensionsordning for udøverne af et tiberalt erhverv.*
Articles 86 and 90 of the Treaty do not preclude the public authorities from conferring on a pension fund the exclusive right to manage a supplementary pension scheme for the members of a profession'
Generaladvokat F.G. Jacobs fremsatte forslag til afgørelse i retsmødet (Domstolens plenum) den 23. marts 2000.
Advocate General F.G. Jacobs delivered his Opinion at the sittine of the Full Court on 23 March 2000.
Sag C-260/98 Kommissionen for De Europæiske Fællesskaber / Den Hellenske Republik Fiskale bestemmelser
(2) A professional pension fund such as the Netherlands Medical Specialists' Pension Fund acts in respect of the insurance of the normpensioen and of the second part of the medical specialists' pension scheme as an undertaking within the meaning of the competition rules of the EC Treaty.
»Traktatbrud — artikel 4, stk 5, i sjette momsdirektiv betaling af vejafgift — momsfritagelse — förordning 1553/89 — egne indtægter hidrørende fra moms* (Domstolens plenum) tjenesteydelse mod vederlag, jf. sjette direktivs artikel 2, nr. 1.
(Failure to fulfil obligations —Article 4(5) of the Sixth VAT Directive —Access to roads on payment of a toll — Failure to levy VAT — Regulations (EEC, Euratom) Nos 1552/89 and 1553/89 — Own resources accruing from VAT) (Full Court) charge VAT on tolls collected as consideration for the use of roads, and second, breached the rules relating to the system of the Communities' own resources by not paying in to the Community budget the own resources accruing from VAT (hereinafter 'VAT own resources') relating to the sums which should have been collected by way of VAT on those tolls.
Det skal herefter undersøges, om Den Nationale Fond til Anlæggelse af Veje — som den græske regering har gjort gældende — er omfattet af den afgiftsfritagelse, der er omhandlet i sjette direktivs artikel 4, stk. 5, for så vidt angår den virksomhed, som består i at stille vejanlæg til rådighed mod betaling af en vejafgift.
Providing access to roads on payment of a toll constitutes a supply of services for consideration within the meaning of Article 2(1) of the Sixth Directive.
I henhold til denne bestemmelses første afsnit anses offentligretlige organer ikke som afgiftspligtige personer for så vidt angår virksomhed eller transaktioner, som de udøver eller foretager i deres egenskab af offentlig myndighed.
It must therefore be ascertained whether, as the Hellenic Government contends, the National Road Construction Fund is entitled to the exemption provided for by Article 4(5) of the Sixth Directive in respect of the activity of providing access to roads on payment of a toll.