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Document 62000CJ0463
Judgment of the Court of 13 May 2003. # Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain. # Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Articles 43 EC and 56 EC - System of administrative approval relating to privatised undertakings. # Case C-463/00.
Sodba Sodišča z dne 13. maja 2003.
Komisija Evropskih skupnosti proti Kraljevini Španiji.
Neizpolnitev obveznosti države.
Zadeva C-463/00.
Sodba Sodišča z dne 13. maja 2003.
Komisija Evropskih skupnosti proti Kraljevini Španiji.
Neizpolnitev obveznosti države.
Zadeva C-463/00.
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2003:272
«(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Articles 43 EC and 56 EC – System of administrative approval relating to privatised undertakings)»
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(Arts 56 and 295 EC)
(Arts 56 EC and 58(1)(b) EC)
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
13 May 2003 (1)
((Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Articles 43 EC and 56 EC – System of administrative approval relating to privatised undertakings))
In Case C-463/00, Commission of the European Communities, represented initially by M. Patakia and M. Desantes, and, subsequently, by M. Patakia and G. Valero Jordana, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg,applicant,
v
Kingdom of Spain, represented by N. Díaz Abad, acting as Agent, with an address for service in Luxembourg,defendant,
supported by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, represented by R. Magrill, acting as Agent, and D. Wyatt QC and J. Crow, Barrister, with an address for service in Luxembourg,intervener,
APPLICATION for a declaration that the provisions of Article 2 and Article 3(1) and (2), together with Article 1, of Ley 5/1995 de régimen jurídico de enajenación de participaciones públicas en determinadas empresas (Law 5/1995 of 23 March 1995 on the legal arrangements for disposal of public shareholdings in certain undertakings (BOE No 72 of 25 March 1995, p. 9366) and the implementing royal decrees enacted under Article 4 of Law 5/1995 (Royal Decree No 3/1996 of 15 January 1996 concerning Repsol SA (BOE No 14 of 16 January 1996, p. 1133), Royal Decree No 8/1997 of 10 January 1997 concerning Telefónica de España SA and Telefónica Servicios Móviles SA (BOE No 10 of 11 January 1997, p. 907), Royal Decree No 40/1998 of 16 January 1998 concerning Corporación Bancaria de España SA (Argentaria) (BOE No 15 of 17 January 1998, p. 1851), Royal Decree No 552/1998 of 2 April 1998 concerning Tabacalera SA (BOE No 80 of 3 April 1998, p. 11370), and Royal Decree No 929/1998 of 14 May 1998 concerning Endesa SA (BOE No 129 of 30 May 1998, p. 17939)), in so far as they implement a system of prior administrative approvalTHE COURT,,
having regard to the Report for the Hearing,
after hearing oral argument from the parties at the hearing on 5 November 2002, at which the Commission was represented by M. Patakia and G. Valero Jordana, the Kingdom of Spain by N. Díaz Abad and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by J.E. Collins, acting as Agent, and by D. Wyatt and J. Crow,after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 6 February 2003,
gives the following
On those grounds,
THE COURT
hereby:
Rodríguez Iglesias |
Puissochet |
Wathelet |
Schintgen |
Gulmann |
Edward |
La Pergola |
Jann |
Skouris |
Macken |
Colneric |
von Bahr |
Rosas |
R. Grass |
G.C. Rodríguez Iglesias |
Registrar |
President |