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Document 62011CN0509

Case C-509/11: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Administrative Court) (Austria) lodged on 30 September 2011 — ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG v Schienen-Control Kommission and Bundesministerin für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie

OJ C 13, 14.1.2012, p. 4–5 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

14.1.2012   

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 13/4

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Administrative Court) (Austria) lodged on 30 September 2011 — ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG v Schienen-Control Kommission and Bundesministerin für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie

(Case C-509/11)

2012/C 13/08

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Administrative Court)

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG

Defendants:

1.

Schienen-Control Kommission

2.

Bundesministerin für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie

Questions referred

1.

Is the first subparagraph of Article 30(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on rail passengers’ rights and obligations, OJ 2007 L 315, p. 14, to be interpreted as meaning that the national body designated responsible for the enforcement of that regulation may prescribe, with binding effect on a railway undertaking whose compensation terms do not conform to the criteria laid down in Article 17 of that regulation, the specific content of the compensation scheme to be used by that railway undertaking although national law permits that body only to declare such compensation terms null and void?

2.

Is Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on rail passengers’ rights and obligations, OJ 2007 L 315, p. 14, to be interpreted as meaning that a railway undertaking may exclude its obligation to pay compensation of the ticket price in cases of force majeure, either through application by analogy of the grounds for exclusion provided for in Regulations (EC) No 261/2004, (EU) No 1177/2010 and (EU) No 181/2011 or by taking into account the exclusions from liability provided for in Article 32(2) of the Uniform Rules concerning the contract for international carriage of passengers and luggage by rail (CIV, Annex I to the Regulation) also for cases of compensation for the ticket price?
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