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Document 62020CN0290
Case C-290/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Satversmes tiesa (Latvia) lodged on 30 June 2020 — AS Latvijas Gāze v Latvijas Republikas Saeima, Sabiedrisko pakalpojumu regulēšanas komisija
Case C-290/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Satversmes tiesa (Latvia) lodged on 30 June 2020 — AS Latvijas Gāze v Latvijas Republikas Saeima, Sabiedrisko pakalpojumu regulēšanas komisija
Case C-290/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Satversmes tiesa (Latvia) lodged on 30 June 2020 — AS Latvijas Gāze v Latvijas Republikas Saeima, Sabiedrisko pakalpojumu regulēšanas komisija
OJ C 297, 7.9.2020, p. 34–35
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
7.9.2020 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 297/34 |
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Satversmes tiesa (Latvia) lodged on 30 June 2020 — AS Latvijas Gāze v Latvijas Republikas Saeima, Sabiedrisko pakalpojumu regulēšanas komisija
(Case C-290/20)
(2020/C 297/46)
Language of the case: Latvian
Referring court
Satversmes tiesa
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: AS Latvijas Gāze
Defendants: Latvijas Republikas Saeima, Sabiedrisko pakalpojumu regulēšanas komisija
Questions referred
1. |
Must Article 23 and Article 32(1) of Directive 2009/73/EC (1) be interpreted as meaning that Member States must adopt a regulatory framework permitting any final customer to choose which type of network — transmission or distribution — he wishes to connect to and imposing on the network operator an obligation to allow him to connect to the network in question? |
2. |
Must Article 23 of Directive 2009/73/EC be interpreted as meaning that Member States have an obligation to adopt a regulatory framework permitting only a non-household final customer (that is to say, only an industrial customer) to connect to the natural gas transmission network? |
3. |
Must Article 23 of Directive 2009/73/EC, in particular the concept of ‘new industrial customer’, be interpreted as meaning that that article lays down an obligation for Member States to adopt a regulatory framework permitting only a non-household final customer (that is to say, only an industrial customer) who has not previously been connected to the distribution network to connect to the natural gas transmission network? |
4. |
Must Article 2(3) and Article 23 of Directive 2009/73/EC be interpreted as meaning that they preclude a regulatory framework enacted by a Member State according to which the transmission of natural gas includes the transmission of natural gas directly to the final customer’s natural gas supply network? |
(1) Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas and repealing Directive 2003/55/EC (OJ 2009 L 211, p. 94).