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However, harmonisation also needed to extend to access to and location of the infrastructures, thereby guaranteeing interconnection between public networks and their suppliers.
Vendar se je morala uskladitev raz�iriti tudi na dostop in namestitev infrastrukture, kar je bilo potrebno, da bi se zagotovilo medomrežno povezovanje med javnimi omrežji in njihovimi dobavitelji.
Article 4c of Directive 90/388 15calls on the Member States to rebalance tariffs, providing for the essential guideline to the effect that the price of universal service provision may be increased, while bearing in mind the need to ensure its affordability. The article is also aimed at ensuring the conciliation of operators’ revenues, taking account of specific market conditions and in the spirit of cooperation which is fundamental in order to enable all individuals to enjoy telecommunications services.
Člen 4c Direktive 90/388 15zahteva od držav članic, naj prilagodijo cene, in napotuje na bistveno smernico, po kateri naj bi se cena za izvajanje univerzalne storitve povi�ala, vendar v mejah, ki bi ohranile njeno dostopnost in hkrati omogočale podjetjem poslovanje z dobičkom, ob spo�tovanju posebnih razmer trga in ob zavedanju neovrgljive potrebe po solidarnosti, ki zahteva, naj se uporaba teh storitev omogoči vsem državljanom.
Article 7(2) of Directive 97/33 provides:
Člen 7(2) Direktive 97/33 določa:
On a separate front, the route to harmonisation, 17which ran parallel to the efforts to remove the barriers restricting effective competition between operators,
Podjetje, ki s svojimi napravami zagotavlja medomrežno povezovanje, mora dokazati, da so cene izračunane iz realnih stro�kov, vključno iz primerne stopnje
14 — Directive of the Commission of 16 May 1988 on competition in the markets in telecommunications terminal equipment (OJ 1998 L 131, p. 73).
14 – Direktiva Komisije z dne 16. maja 1988, o konkurenci na trgu za telekomunikacijsko terminalsko opremo (UL L 131, str. 73).
‘Charges for interconnection shall follow the principles of transparency and cost orientation.
15 – Vstavljen z zgoraj navedeno Direktivo 96/19.16 – Nadome�čena z Direktivo 2002/21.
15 — Inserted by Directive 96/19.16 — Replaced by Directive 2002/21.
18 – Storitev je znana tudi pod svojo angle�ko okraj�avo „ONP“, to je „Open Network Provision“.
17 — Unquestionably strengthened by Council Directive 90/387/EEC of 28 June 1990 on the establishment of the internal market for telecommunications services through the implementation of open network provision (OJ 1990 L 192, p. 1).
17 – Harmonizacija je bila odločno raz�irjena z Okvirno direktivo Sveta 90/387/EGS z dne 28. junija 1990 o vzpostavitvi notranjega trga za telekomunikacijske storitve z uvedbo zagotavljanja odprtosti omrežij (UL L 192, str. 1).
ARCOR AND OTHERS services concerned by enshrining the principle of transparency. 20
ARCOR IN DRUGI kritju dejanskih stro�kov ustreznih storitev, in izbolj�uje preglednost 20.
National regulatory authorities may request an organisation to provide full justification for its interconnection charges, and where appropriate shall require charges to be adjusted.
Nacionalni regulativni organi lahko zahtevajo od podjetja, da jim popolnoma utemelji cene medomrežnega povezovanja, in lahko po potrebi zahtevajo prilagoditev cen.
This paragraph shall also apply to organisations set out in Part 3 of Annex I which have been notified by national regulatory authorities as having significant market power on the national market for interconnection.
Določbe tega odstavka se uporabljajo tudi za organizacije iz dela 3 priloge I, ki so jih nacionalni regulativni organi sporočili kot organizacije z znatno močjo na nacionalnem trgu medomrežnega povezovanja.
In order to prevent fraud, Article 7(4) provides that, in accordance with Community law, interconnection charges must be sufficiently unbundled, so that the applicant is not required to pay for anything not strictly related to the service.
Obveznosti operaterja s prevladujočim položajem na trgu, da zagotovi dostop do omrežja in medomrežno povezovanje, so določene v členu 35 in naslednjih Telekommunikationsgesetz z dne 25. julija 1996 (zakon o telekomunikacijah, v nadaljevanju: TKG 21).
In accordance with Paragraphs 39 and 27 et seq., all charges relating to access to the network must be submitted for authorisation so that the licence holder does not receive payments in excess of those approved by the administrative authorities.
Da bi se preprečile morebitne goljufije, člen 7(4) določa, da morajo biti, v skladu z pravom Skupnosti, plačila za medomrežno povezovanje prikazana v dovolj razčlenjeni obliki, tako da se prosilcu omogoči, da se izogne plačilu zneskov, ki niso neposredno povezani s storitvijo.
Paragraph 43(6) of the TKG, in the version of the Law of 21 October 2002, 22
Člena 39, 27 in naslednji TKG nalagajo obveznost, da v odobritev predloži vse pristojbine, povezane z dostopom do omrežja, kar imetniku dovoljenja preprečuje prejemanje vi�jih zneskov od zneskov, ki jih odobrijo upravni organi.
In addition, following the adoption of Directive 98/61, which inserts a paragraph 7 into Article 12 of Directive 97/33, subscribers are granted the right to access the switched services of any interconnected telecommunications provider and the national regulatory authorities are required to ensure that pricing for interconnection is cost-orientated and that any charges imposed do not act as a disincentive for the use of the facility.
Poleg tega se naročnikom ponuja tudi pravica izbrati priklopne storitve kateregakoli medomrežno povezanega ponudnika telekomunikacijskih storitev, kar zagotavlja Direktiva 98/61, s katero je bil k členu 12 Direktive 97/33 dodan odstavek 7, ki določa, da morajo nacionalni regulativni organi zagotoviti, da cene medomrežnega povezovanja ustrezajo dejanskim stro�kom, in preprečiti, da bi se uporabnike s posebnimi tarifami odvračalo od izkori�čanja te pravice.
OPINION OF MR RUIZ-JARABO — JOINED CASES C-152/07 TO C-154/07 to compensate for any deficit suffered by the dominant operator.
SKLEPNI PREDLOGI RUIZ-JARABOJA — ZDRUŽENE ZADEVE OD C-152/07 DO 154/07 pokrijejo izgube, določa člen 43(6) TKG, v besedilu zakona z dne 21. oktobra 2002 22.
Paragraph 43(6) of the TKG, ordered, with effect from 1 July 2003, an additional noncost based contribution in respect of the Telekom-B.2 (Ort.) facility, in the amount of EUR 0.0004 per minute, on the grounds that revenues accruing to Deutsche Telekom from end users did not cover all the costs of activating the local loop.
od 1. julija 2003, določil od stro�kov ločen dodaten prispevek za storitev Telekom-B.2 (Ort) v vi�ini 0,0004 EUR na minuto, ker dobički, ki jih podjetje ustvari v poslovanju s končnimi uporabniki, ne zadostujejo za pokritje stro�kov zagotovitve krajevne zanke.
III — The facts, the main proceedings and the questions referred for a prelimin- ary ruling
III – Dejstva, spora o glavni stvari in vprašanji za predhodno odločanje
Barely one month later, the Commission 24fined Deutsche Telekom EUR 12 600 000 for abusing its dominant position by requiring its competitors to pay a price for access to the local network which was higher than the one it charged its own subscribers for use of the fixed network.
Komaj mesec dni pozneje je Komisija 24Deutsche Telekomu zaradi zlorabe prevla- dujočega položaja naložila globo v vi�ini 12.600.000 EUR, ker je za dostop do krajevnega omrežja od konkurentov zahteval vi�ji znesek, kot ga je za uporabo fiksnega omrežja zaračunaval svojim naročnikom.
Arcor AG & Co. KG, Communication Services TELE2 GmbH and Firma 01051 Telekom GmbH operate in Germany using public telecommunications networks, and offer their customers a carrier selection service through interconnection to the local network of Deutsche Telekom. 25.
Pristojni regulativni organ je Deutsche Telekom naložil, naj v zameno za nadomestilo, ki ga plačajo Arcor AG & Co. KG, Communication Services TELE2 GmbH in Firma 01051 Telekom GMBH, zagotovi storitev Telekom-B.2 (Ort). 25.
By decision of 23 September 2003, the regulatory authority annulled (ex nunc) the imposition of the additional contributions, which were thus restricted to the period from 1 July to 23 September 2003.
Regulativni organ je z odločbo z dne 23. septembra 2003 razveljavil (ex nunc) plačilo dodatnih prispevkov, ki so tako obvezovali le v obdobju med 1. julijem in 23. septembrom 2003.
Each of the three undertakings required to pay the additional charges individually contested the administrative decision approving those charges.
Tri podjetja, ki so bila zaradi obveznosti plačevanja dodatnih prispevkov o�kodovana, so ločeno izpodbijala odločbo, s katero so bili ti prispevki naloženi.
24 — Decision 2003/707/EC of 21 May 2003 (OJ 2003 L 263, p.
24 – Odločba 2003/707/ES z dne 21. maja 2003 (UL L 263, str.
ARCOR AND OTHERS
ARCOR IN DRUGI
If the answer to the first question is in the affirmative:
V primeru pritrdilnega odgovora na vpra�anje 1:
By judgment of 3 November 2005, the Verwaltungsgericht (Administrative Court), Cologne upheld their claims on the grounds of infringement of Community law, in par -ticular Article 7(2) and Article 12(7) of Directive 97/33, as amended by Directive 98/61.
Verwaltungsgericht (upravno sodi�če) v Kölnu je s sodbo z dne 3. novembra 2005 ugotovilo kr�itev prava Skupnosti, posebej členov 7(2) in 12(7) Direktive 97/33, kot je bila spremenjena z Direktivo 98/61, in ugodilo njihovim zahtevkom.
(2) Is the incompatibility with Community law of such a requirement, which is a provision of domestic law, to be taken into account by the national court in proceedings concerning the approval of a contribution by the interconnected network operator?’
ali mora nacionalno sodi�če upo�tevati neskladnost take obveznosti, ki izhaja iz določbe nacionalnega prava, s pravom Skupnosti, v postopku, ki se nana�a na naložitev obveznosti operaterju medomrežno povezanega omrežja?“
Germany and Deutsche Telekom brought an appeal before the Bundesverwaltungsgericht, which took the view that Paragraph 43(6) of the TKG may be incompatible with Community law. Accordingly the Bundesverwaltungsgericht stayed the proceedings and referred the following questions to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling:
Nemčija in Deutsche Telekom sta zoper to vložila revizijo pred Zveznim upravnim sodi�čem, ki je zaradi dvomov, ali je člen 43(6) TKG v nasprotju s pravom Skupnosti, prekinilo odločanje in Sodi�ču v predhodno odločanje predložilo ti vpra�anji:
The order for reference was registered at the Court Registry on 20 March 2007.
Predlog za sprejetje predhodne odločbe je bil v vpisnik sodnega tajni�tva Sodi�ča vpisan 20. marca 2007.
By order of 1 June 2007, the President of the Court joined the three cases on account of their objective connection.
S sklepom z dne 1. junija 2007 je predsednik Sodi�ča, zaradi njihove objektivne podobnosti, združil tri zadeve.
Observations were lodged, within the timelimit laid down in Article 23 of the Statute of the Court of Justice, by the German Government and Deutsche Telekom, who propose that both questions referred be answered in the negative, and by the appellant undertakings in the main proceedings and the Commission, who argue that the Court should rule that the requirement concerned is incompatible with Community law.
Ali je treba Direktivo Komisije 90/388/EGS z dne 28. junija 1990 in Direktivo 97/33/ES Evropskega parlamenta in Sveta z dne 30. junija 1997 razlagati tako, da nacionalnemu regulativnemu organu v letu 2003 preprečujeta, da operaterju omrežja, ki je medomrežno povezano z javnim telekomunikacijskim omrežjem, naloži obveznost, naj operaterju s prevladujočim položajem plača prispevek za izravnavo primanjkljaja, ki nastane zaradi zagotavljanja krajevnih zank?
OPINION OF MR RUIZ-JARABO — JOINED CASES C-152/07 TO C-154/07 ation of the invention in New York.
SKLEPNI PREDLOGI RUIZ-JARABOJA — ZDRUŽENE ZADEVE OD C-152/07 DO 154/07 prikazal delovanje tega izuma.
At the hearing on 19 February 2008, oral argument was presented by the representatives of those who participated in the written stage and also by the United Kingdom.
Na obravnavi 19. februarja 2008 so bili poleg predstavnikov udeležencev pisnega postopka tudi predstavniki Združenega kraljestva, da bi ustno predstavili svoje stali�če.
A — The first question
A – Prvo vprašanje za predhodno odločanje vprašanj za predhodno
Some preliminary points on universal service
Nekaj uvodnih preudarkov glede univerzalne storitve
The Court is seised of a large number of proceedings in which telecommunications are of great significance, a phenomenon foreseen since the dawn of the development of such services because of the economic potential inherent in exploiting them.
Sodi�če obravnava �tevilne zadeve, v katerih imajo telekomunikacije velik pomen; pojav je opazen že od začetkov razvoja panoge, zaradi velikega ekonomskega potenciala poslovanja v tem sektorju.
That slogan revealed the desire to bring the whole population together through a telephone network 31in a period when the rivalry between the Bell System and the independent companies turned into hysteria. 32
28 – Potem ko je prisluhnil odgovorom jasnovidne opice, je Don Kihot povedal Sanču, kaj se napoveduje: „Dogodki nam bodo to razkrili, […] da čas, odkritelj vseh reči, ne bo dopustil, da bi katera od le-teh ne uvidela svetlobe dneva, četudi bi se bila skrila globoko v nedrjih zemlje.“ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Veleumni plemič don Kihot iz Manče, Ljubljana, Cankarjeva založba, 1988; str. 568.
30 — Coined in the United States in 1907 by Theodore Vail, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
30 – Geslo je v Združenih državah Amerike leta 1907 skoval Theodore Wail, predsednik American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Local calls as part of universal service
Krajevni klici kot del univerzalne storitve
The aim of universal service is to offer a quality service at a reasonable price throughout the territory concerned, propositions which are set out in Articles 3 and 9 of Directive 97/33.
Namen je ponuditi, za razumno ceno in na celotnem ozemlju, kakovostno storitev, kar je vodilo, ki je izrecno povzeto tudi v členih 3 oz. 9 Direktive 97/33.
It is clear from Article 5(2) of Direct- ive 98/10/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 1998 on the application of open network provision (ONP) to voice telephony and on universal service for telecommunications in a competitive environment, 34and from Article 4(2) of Directive 2002/22/EC, that local calls fall within the scope of universal service.
Krajevni klici spadajo v sklop univerzalne storitve, kar izhaja iz člena 5(2) Direktive 98/10/ES Evropskega parlamenta in Sveta z dne 26. februarja 1998 34o uporabi sistema zagotavljanja odprtosti omrežij pri govorni telefoniji in o univerzalnih storitvah za telekomunikacije v konkurenčnem okolju, kot tudi člena 4(2) Direktive 2002/22.
However, that task of public interest gives rise to a number of difficulties, since, without proper navigation, there is a risk that it will founder in a society characterised by the dualism between those who are able to access certain networks and services and those who are excluded from doing so.
Vendar to nalogo, ki je v skupnem interesu vseh, spremljajo tudi nekatere težave, saj že z neustreznim vodenjem tvegamo, da bi bila družba razdvojena med te, ki imajo dostop do določenih omrežji in storitev, in te, ki so izključeni.
However, in its arguments the former monopoly, supported by the German Government, interprets Article 4c of Dir -ective 90/388 in an unusual manner which, in my opinion, is devoid of reason.
Vendar nekdanji monopolist, ki ga podpira nem�ka vlada, v svojih stali�čih člen 4c Direktive 90/388 razlaga na poseben način, ki ga po mojem mnenju ni mogoče utemeljiti.
With a view to resolving those difficulties, Community law satisfies both the needs of the public and the rules of competition in pursuit of cooperation and commercial freedom, while bearing in mind the need to calculate the cost of the service and distribute it between all the operators. Those aims are reflected in Article 5 of the Interconnection Directive and Articles 12 to 14 of the Universal Service Directive.
Da bi se premostile te ovire, se v pravu Skupnosti posku�a hkrati zadostiti potrebam prebivalstva in pravilom o konkurenci, poudarjata se solidarnost in poslovna svoboda, ob upo�tevanju stro�kovnih izračunov in potrebe po razdelitvi bremen med vse operaterje, kot je izraženo v členu 5 Direktive o medomrežnem povezovanju in členih od 12 do 14 Direktive o univerzalni storitvi.
Community languages appear paradigmatic, and, therefore, to reach the correct interpretation, it is necessary to take account of its general scheme and underlying purpose, 36always in the light of the other linguistic versions. 37
Financiranje univerzalne storitve med posameznimi jezikovnimi različicami, upo�tevati njegovo splo�no zgradbo in teleolo�ko podlago 36, vendar vedno v luči preostalih jezikovnih različic 37.
After the basic conditions for opening up the telecommunications market had been created, Advocate General Léger 39 observed that effective competition requires a rebalancing of tariffs, designed to prevent the risk of operators focusing their activity on the most profitable market segments (national and international calls), thereby marginalising the less profitable services (local calls) which must also be provided under the universal service obligation.
Po vzpostavitvi osnovnih pogojev za odprtje trga telekomunikacij je generalni pravobranilec Léger 39opozoril, da je dejansko konkurenco moč doseči le po uskladitvi tarif, saj se tako izognemo tveganju, da bo operater dejavnost usmeril predvsem v najbolj donosna področja (medkrajevni in mednarodni klici) in zanemaril manj dobičkonosne storitve (krajevni klici), ki so prav tako zajeti s pojmom univerzalnosti.
On that interpretation, the argument is easily refuted in the light of liberalisation where any imposition of obligations is of secondary importance.
S tak�no hermenevtiko je argument lahko zavrniti, kajti v luči liberalizacije je vsaka obveznost drugotnega pomena.
Only if the oper -ators were unable to provide universal service would administrative intervention and the imposition of obligations be unavoidable. However, until such time as that exceptional situation occurs, the universal service obligations are entrusted to the market as a whole.
Le v primeru, da operater ne bi mogel zagotoviti univerzalne storitve, bi bila uradni poseg in razdelitev obveznosti neizogibna; v vsakem drugem primeru je treba obveznosti zagotovitve univerzalne storitve prepustiti silam trga.
That is the aim pursued by Direct- ive 90/388, as amended by Directive 96/19.
Direktiva 90/388 in Direktiva 96/19, ki jo spreminja, se posvečata temu problemu.
Recital 20 in the preamble to the latter directive describes the situation which it seeks to alter, where certain categories of telephone calls are provided at a loss and are cross-subsidised out of the profits from other segments of a particular undertaking’s activity.
V dvajseti uvodni izjavi zadnjenavedene direktive je opisan položaj, ki se ga posku�a spremeniti in za katerega so bile značilne kategorije nedonosnih klicev, ki so bile subvencionirane z dohodki iz drugih dejavnosti istega podjetja.
In any event, the facts demonstrate that before and after (as to more than 95%) liberalisation, Deutsche Telekom operated in the universal service segment of local calls.
V vsakem primeru dejstva razkrivajo, da se je Deutsche Telekom pred in po liberalizaciji (v več kot 95 %) posvečal predvsem tistemu delu univerzalne storitve, ki ga predstavljajo krajevni klici.
The artificially low prices of local calls impeded competition and did not provide
38 – V anglosa�kem strokovnem jeziku znano pod izrazom „rebalancing“.
38 — Footnote not relevant to English-language version.
I-3219) in z dne 19. aprila 2007 v zadevi Profisa (C-63/06, ZOdl., str. I-3239).
37 — Judgment in Case C-372/88 Cricket St. Thomas [1990] ECR I-1345, paragraph 19.
39 – Navedeno iz točk 3 in 4 sklepnih predlogov z dne 10. julija 2003 v zadevi Komisija proti Španiji, C-500/01 (sodba z dne 7. januarja 2004, Recueil, str. I-583).
ARCOR AND OTHERS phasing out of the remaining imbalances, or a detailed timetable for so doing. 43 potential competitors with any incentive to enter the less lucrative fields.
ARCOR IN DRUGI časovnega načrta za njihovo uresničitev 43, ni izpolnila obveznosti, ki ji jih nalaga pravo tekmecem niso dajale vzpodbude za vstop na manj donosne dele trga.
In the judgment in Commission v Spain, 40the Court, while acknowledging b) Cross-subsidisation: an inadequate financing mechanism in a market which has been opened up to competition that Article 4c of Directive 90/388 did not lay down a period within which tariffs must be rebalanced, found that Directive 96/19 provided for rebalancing to be carried out at a sustained rate and to be completed no later than 1 January 1998 (paragraph 32).
S sodbo Sodi�ča v zadevi Komisija proti Španiji z dne 7. januarja 2004 40 je bilo ugoto- b) Navzkrižno subvencioniranje: neprimeren finančni in�trument za trg, odprt za konkurenco vljeno, da člen 4c Direktive 90/388 ne predpisuje nobenega roka za uskladitev tarif, a hkrati tudi, da Direktiva 96/19 predvideva postopno in enakomerno usklajevanje, ki mora biti končano do 1. januarja 1998 (točka 32).
42 developed or very small, in all cases in accordance with a detailed timetable.
Peta uvodna izjava Direktive 96/19 določa izjeme od tega roka, ki so upravičene v primeru slabe razvitosti omrežja 41 ali njegove velikosti 42, vendar �e vedno pogo- jene z natančnim časovnim načrtom.
In the wake of liberalisation, Direct- ive 97/33 used the ingredients of fairness and proportionality, seasoned with the principle of nondiscrimination (recital 2), to temper certain conditions for interoperability, presented under the format of accounting separation, in order to avoid any upsets caused by unfair cross-subsidisation, 44 which is always difficult to digest at the table of free competition.
V smeri liberalizacije je Direktiva 97/33 uporabila vodili enakosti in sorazmernosti, začinjeni z načelom prepovedi diskriminacije (druga uvodna izjava), da bi ublažila določene pogoje interoperabilnosti v obliki računovodske ločitve posameznih dejavnosti, katerih namen je izognitev motnjam, ki bi jih utegnile povzročiti nepravične navzkrižne subvencije 44, ki so težko sprejemljive z vidika svobodne konkurence.
Unlike the situation under the monopoly, when such internal transfers — whereby the profits from activities not subject to restrictions were earmarked for covering the losses from the provision of social services (such as universal service) — were accepted, in the new framework of liberalisation they are not tolerated. The reason is that dominant undertakings could use such practices as a missile to eliminate their competitors,
Drugače kot v primeru monopolnega položaja, ko je bil sprejemljiv način delovanja s pomočjo notranjih transakcij, pri katerih se namenjajo donosi iz dejavnosti, ki niso podvržene omejitvam, za pokritje izgub zaradi izvajanja socialnih storitev (med njimi tudi univerzalne), v novem okviru svobode to ni dopustno, saj bi podjetja s prevladujočim položajem to lahko izkoristila kot orožje
Neither of those exceptions arises in the case before the Court, from which it follows that the tariffs in Germany should have been rebalanced by 2003. In a similar case, the Court declared that France had failed to fulfil its obligations on the grounds that it had not complied with those time-limits, since it had been established that the rebalancing provided for in the third paragraph of Article 4c of Directive 90/388, as amended, had not been completed by 1 January 1998 and that the French Government had not sent the Commission its plans for the gradual
V obravnavani zadevi se ne pojavlja noben od navedenih pogojev, torej bi morale biti tarife leta 2003 v Nemčiji usklajene; v podobnem primeru je medtem Sodi�če ugotovilo, da Francija, s tem da do 1. januarja 1998 ni končala uskladitve in tako ni spo�tovala časovnih okvirjev, predpisanih v členu 4c(3) Direktive 90/388, kot je bila spremenjena, in s tem, da njena vlada ni predložila Komisiji niti načrtov za postopno odpravo preostalih neskladnosti niti natančnega