Request for a preliminary ruling from the Lietuvos vyriausiasis administracinis teismas (Lithuania) lodged on 25 July 2013 — UAB ‘Vilniaus energija’ v Lietuvos metrologijos inspekcijos Vilniaus apskrities skyrius

(Case C-423/13)

2013/C 304/09

Language of the case: Lithuanian

Referring court

Lietuvos vyriausiasis administracinis teismas (Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania)

Parties to the main proceedings

Claimant: UAB ‘Vilniaus energija’

Defendant: Lietuvos metrologijos inspekcijos Vilniaus apskrities skyrius

Question referred

Must Article 34 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and/or Directive 2004/22/EC (1) be interpreted as prohibiting a national regulation and practice under which a hot-water meter which satisfies all of the requirements of Directive 2004/22/EC and is connected to a remote (telemetric) data-transmission device is regarded as being a measuring system and by reason of that fact that hot-water meter cannot be used as intended until a metrological verification has been carried out on that meter and that remote (telemetric) data-transmission device as together constituting a measuring system?

(1)  Directive 2004/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on measuring instruments (OJ L 135, p. 1).