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    Case C-360/19: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — Crown Van Gelder BV v Autoriteit Consument en Markt (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Internal market for electricity — Directive 2009/72/EC — Article 37 — Duties and powers of the regulatory authority — Out-of-court dispute settlement — Concept of ‘party having a complaint’ — Complaint submitted by a final customer against the operator of a transmission system to which that customer’s installation is not directly connected — Failure on the grid — No contractual relationship between that customer and the operator of that grid — Admissibility of the complaint)

    OJ C 414, 30.11.2020, p. 8–8 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

    30.11.2020   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    C 414/8


    Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — Crown Van Gelder BV v Autoriteit Consument en Markt

    (Case C-360/19) (1)

    (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Internal market for electricity - Directive 2009/72/EC - Article 37 - Duties and powers of the regulatory authority - Out-of-court dispute settlement - Concept of ‘party having a complaint’ - Complaint submitted by a final customer against the operator of a transmission system to which that customer’s installation is not directly connected - Failure on the grid - No contractual relationship between that customer and the operator of that grid - Admissibility of the complaint)

    (2020/C 414/08)

    Language of the case: Dutch

    Referring court

    College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven

    Parties to the main proceedings

    Applicant: Crown Van Gelder BV

    Defendant: Autoriteit Consument en Markt

    Other party: TenneT TSO BV

    Operative part of the judgment

    Article 37(11) of Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC must be interpreted as meaning that the regulatory authority may not dismiss a complaint submitted by a final customer against the operator of a transmission system, following a power failure in that system, on the ground that that final customer’s installation is connected not to that transmission system directly, but only to a distribution system fed by it.


    (1)  OJ C 270, 12.8.2019.


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