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Document 62018CN0193
Case C-193/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberverwaltungsgericht für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) lodged on 19 March 2018 — Google LLC v Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Case C-193/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberverwaltungsgericht für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) lodged on 19 March 2018 — Google LLC v Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Case C-193/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberverwaltungsgericht für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) lodged on 19 March 2018 — Google LLC v Bundesrepublik Deutschland
OJ C 211, 18.6.2018, p. 14–15
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
Case C-193/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberverwaltungsgericht für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) lodged on 19 March 2018 — Google LLC v Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberverwaltungsgericht für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) lodged on 19 March 2018 — Google LLC v Bundesrepublik Deutschland
(Case C-193/18)
2018/C 211/17Language of the case: GermanReferring court
Oberverwaltungsgericht für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Google LLC
Defendant: Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Questions referred
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Must the criterion of ‘a service … which consists wholly or mainly in the conveyance of signals on electronic communications networks’ in Article 2(c) of Framework Directive 2002/21/EC ( 1 ) be interpreted as meaning that it also includes, or may also include, web-based email services which are supplied over the open internet and do not themselves provide internet access?
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In the event that the criterion referred to in Question 1 is to be interpreted as meaning that it does not, in principle, include web-based email services which are supplied over the open internet and do not themselves provide internet access, is that criterion nonetheless capable, exceptionally, of being fulfilled where the provider of such an email service simultaneously operates a number of its own internet-connected electronic communications networks which can in any event be used, inter alia, for the purposes of the email service? If so, under which conditions is this possible? |
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How is the criterion ‘normally provided for remuneration’, laid down in Article 2(c) of Framework Directive 2002/21/EC, to be interpreted?
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( 1 ) Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on a common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (OJ 2002 L 108, p. 33).