11.8.2012   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 243/8


Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (France) lodged on 29 May 2012 — 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 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)

2012/C 243/14

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

Question referred

In the light of the change in the mechanism for financing in full the additional costs imposed on Électricité de France and the non-nationalised distributors referred to in Article 23 of Law No 46-628 of 8 April 1946 on the nationalisation of electricity and gas by the obligation to purchase at higher than market price the electricity generated by wind-power installations, as a result of Law No 2003-8 of 3 January 2003, must that mechanism now be regarded as an intervention by the State or through State resources within the meaning, and for the application, of Article 87 EC?