16.11.2020   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 390/9


Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 16 September 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție — Romania) — SC Romenergo SA, Aris Capital SA v Autoritatea de Supraveghere Financiară

(Case C-339/19) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Free movement of capital - Company law - Shares admitted to trading on the regulated market - Financial investment company - National regulations limiting the shareholding in certain financial investment companies - Statutory presumption of concerted action)

(2020/C 390/12)

Language of the case: Romanian

Referring court

Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicants: SC Romenergo SA, Aris Capital SA

Defendant: Autoritatea de Supraveghere Financiară

Operative part of the judgment

Article 63 TFEU must be interpreted as precluding a national measure which provides for a 5 % limit on a shareholding in a financial investment company, if that measure is not justified by an overriding reason in the public interest, which it is for the referring court to ascertain.


(1)  OJ C 255, 29.7.2019.