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22.2.2014 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
C 52/11 |
Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 19 December 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Association Vent De Colère! Fédération nationale and Others v Ministre de l’Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement, Ministre de l’Économie, des Finances et de l’Industrie
(Case C-262/12) (1)
(Reference for a preliminary ruling - State aid - Concept of ‘intervention by the State or through State resources’ - Wind-generated electricity - Obligation to purchase at a price higher than the market price - Offsetting in full - Charges payable by final consumers of electricity)
2014/C 52/17
Language of the case: French
Referring court
Conseil d’État
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicants: Association Vent De Colère! Fédération nationale, Alain Bruguier, Jean-Pierre Le Gorgeu, Marie-Christine Piot, Eric Errec, Didier Wirth, Daniel Steinbach, Sabine Servan-Schreiber, Philippe Rusch, Pierre Recher, Jean-Louis Moret, Didier Jocteur Monrozier
Defendants: Ministre de l’Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement, Ministre de l’Économie, des Finances et de l’Industrie
Intervener: Syndicat des énergies renouvelables
Re:
Request for a preliminary ruling — Conseil d’État (France) — Interpretation of Article 87 EC, now Article 107 TFEU — Concept of intervention by the State or through State resources — Obligation to purchase wind-generated electricity at a price higher than the market price — Additional costs offset in full — Change in the method of financing that offsetting — Charges payable by final consumers of electricity.
Operative part of the judgment
Article 107(1) TFEU must be interpreted as meaning that a mechanism for offsetting in full the additional costs imposed on undertakings because of an obligation to purchase wind-generated electricity at a price higher than the market price that is financed by all final consumers of electricity in the national territory, such as that resulting from Law No 2000-108 of 10 February 2000 on the modernisation and development of the public electricity service, as amended by Law No 2006-1537 of 7 December 2006 on the energy sector, constitutes an intervention through State resources.