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Document 62025CN0474

Case C-474/25, Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin (Germany) lodged on 16 July 2025 – LD v Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg

OJ C, C/2025/5673, 3.11.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/5673/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/5673/oj

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C/2025/5673

3.11.2025

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin (Germany) lodged on 16 July 2025 – LD v Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg

(Case C-474/25, Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg)

(C/2025/5673)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Verwaltungsgericht Berlin

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: LD

Defendant: Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg

Questions referred

1.

Are Articles 1(6) and 3(1) and (2) of Directive 2000/31/EC (1) to be interpreted as precluding a Member State’s national provisions designed to safeguard diversity of opinion which impose requirements on providers of media intermediary services, that is to say providers of information society services which include journalistic-editorial content from third parties which is aggregated, selected and presented in a generally accessible form without being consolidated into a single package, to ensure the accessibility of certain transparency information in their applications, even if the providers of media intermediary services are established in another Member State but the media intermediary services which they provide are also intended for use in the Member State which has enacted the provisions?

2.

Is Article 27 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (2) to be interpreted as entirely or partly precluding a Member State’s national provisions designed to safeguard diversity of opinion which impose requirements on providers of media intermediary services, that is to say providers of information society services which include journalistic-editorial content from third parties which is aggregated, selected and presented in a generally accessible form without being consolidated into a single package, to ensure the accessibility of certain transparency information in their applications?


(1)  Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (‘Directive on electronic commerce’) (OJ 2000 L 178, p. 1).

(2)  Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act) (OJ 2022 L 277, p. 1).


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ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)


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