E2000J0006

EFTA Court - Advisory Opinion of the Court of 14 June 2001 in Case E-6/00 (Request for an Advisory Opinion from the Administrative Court for the Principality of Liechtenstein): Dr Jürgen Tschannett (Right of establishment — Single practice rule — Justification by overriding reasons of general interest) (Pursuant to Article 27(5) of the Rules of Procedure only the English and German texts are authentic)

Official Journal C 237 , 23/08/2001 P. 0004 - 0004


Advisory Opinion of the Court

of 14 June 2001

in Case E-6/00 (Request for an Advisory Opinion from the Administrative Court for the Principality of Liechtenstein): Dr Jürgen Tschannett

Right of establishment - Single practice rule - Justification by overriding reasons of general interest

(Pursuant to Article 27(5) of the Rules of Procedure only the English and German texts are authentic)

(2001/C 237/05)

In Case E-6/00: request to the Court pursuant to Article 34 of the Agreement between the EFTA States on the establishment of a surveillance authority and a Court of Justice by Verwaltungsbeschwerdeinstanz des Fürstentums Liechtenstein (Administrative Court for the Principality of Liechtenstein), for an Advisory Opinion in the case pending before it concerning Dr Jürgen Tschannett, in the interpretation of Article 31 of the EEA Agreement, the Court, composed of: Thór Vilhjálmsson, President, Carl Baudenbacher and Per Tresselt (Judge-Rapporteur), Judges; and Gunnar Selvik, Registrar, gave an Advisory Opinion on 14 June 2001, the operative part of which is as follows:

A national provision of a contracting party to the EEA Agreement which provides that a physici may not operate more than one practice, regardless of location, is incompatible with Article 31 EEA.