Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 10 September 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Lietuvos vyriausiasis administracinis teismas — Lithuania) — Vilniaus energija UAB v Lietuvos metrologijos inspekcijos Vilniaus apskrities skyrius

(Case C-423/13) (1)

((Request for a preliminary ruling - Free movement of goods - Measures having equivalent effect - Directive 2004/22/EC - Metrological verification of measuring systems - Hot-water meter satisfying all the requirements of that directive and connected to a remote (telemetric) data-transmission device - Prohibition of the use of that meter without a prior metrological verification of the system))

2014/C 409/23

Language of the case: Lithuanian

Referring court

Lietuvos vyriausiasis administracinis teismas

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Vilniaus energija UAB

Defendant: Lietuvos metrologijos inspekcijos Vilniaus apskrities skyrius

Operative part of the judgment

Article 34 TFEU and Directive 2004/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on measuring instruments must be interpreted as precluding national legislation and practice according to which a hot-water meter which satisfies all the requirements of that directive and is connected to a remote (telemetric) data-transmission device is to be regarded as a measuring system and, as a result, cannot be used for its intended purpose so long as it has not been subject, together with that device, to a metrological verification as a measuring system.

(1)  OJ C 304, 19.10.2013.