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Document 62006CJ0274
Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 February 2008. # Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Article 56 EC - National provision limiting the voting rights of shareholders in undertakings in the energy sector - Limitation applicable to public bodies. # Case C-274/06.
Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 February 2008.
Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Article 56 EC - National provision limiting the voting rights of shareholders in undertakings in the energy sector - Limitation applicable to public bodies.
Case C-274/06.
Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 February 2008.
Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Article 56 EC - National provision limiting the voting rights of shareholders in undertakings in the energy sector - Limitation applicable to public bodies.
Case C-274/06.
European Court Reports 2008 I-00026*
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2008:86
- Date of document:
- 14/02/2008
- Date lodged:
- 23/06/2006
- Author:
- Court of Justice
- Country or organisation from which the request originates:
- Spain
- Form:
- Judgment
- Authentic language:
- Spanish
- Type of procedure:
- Action for failure to fulfil obligations - successful
- Defendant:
- Spain
- Judge-Rapporteur:
- Lindh
- Advocate General:
- Mengozzi
- Treaty:
- Treaty establishing the European Economic Community
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- Select all documents mentioning this document
- Case affecting:
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- Failure concerning 11997E056
- Instruments cited in case law:
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- 11997E056: N 1
- 11997E056-P1: N 16 - 27 35 - 54
- 11997E058: N 35
- 11997E058-P1LB: N 37 - 53
- 31988L0361: N 17
- 61998CJ0367: N 20 35 36
- 61999CJ0054: N 39
- 61999CJ0483: N 38
- 62000CJ0463: N 20 35 36
- 62004CJ0174: N 20 35 36 44
- 62004CJ0446: N 19
- 62005CJ0112: N 18 - 30 35 36
- 62005CJ0157: N 19
- Notes relating to the decision:
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- Jiménez-Blanco Carrillo de Albornoz, Antonio: El Tribunal de Justicia contra la Ley Rato (Sentencia de 14 de febrero de 2008), Noticias de la Unión Europea 2009 nº 297 p.127-135
- Kauff-Gazin, Fabienne: Régime des actions spécifiques de l`Etat dans le capital d'une société, Europe 2008 Avril Comm. nº 115 p.17-18
- Subject matter:
- Case law directory code:
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Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 February 2008 – Commission v Spain
(Case C‑274/06)
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Article 56 EC – National provision limiting the voting rights of shareholders in undertakings in the energy sector – Limitation applicable to public bodies
Free movement of capital – Restrictions – Company law – National legislation limiting the voting rights attaching to shares held by public bodies in national undertakings in the energy sector (Arts 56 EC and 58(1)(b) EC) (see paras 27, 53-54 and operative part)
Re:
| Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Infringement of Article 56 EC – National provision which provides, in certain cases, for the limitation of voting rights in undertakings in the energy sector. |
Operative part
The Court:
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1. |
Declares that, by maintaining in force measures such as those laid down in Supplementary Provision No 27 to Law 55/1999 of 29 December 1999 on fiscal, administrative and social measures, in the version of that provision laid down in Article 94 of Law 62/2003 of 30 December 2003, which limits the voting rights of shares held by public bodies in Spanish undertakings operating in the energy sector, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 56 EC; |
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2. |
Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs. |
