Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 16 November 2017

Robeco Hollands Bezit NV and Others v Stichting Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM)

Request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2004/39/EC — Markets in financial instruments — Article 4(1)(14) — Definition of ‘regulated market’ — Scope — System in which the participants are brokers representing investors and ‘open end’ investment fund agents required to execute orders relating to their funds

Case C-658/15


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
05/01/2018 Robeco Hollands Bezit and Others
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2017:870
16/11/2017 Robeco Hollands Bezit and Others
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2017:870
16/11/2017 Robeco Hollands Bezit and Others
Application (OJ)
26/02/2016 Robeco Hollands Bezit and Others
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2017:304
26/04/2017 Robeco Hollands Bezit and Others
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.04 Free movement of persons and services
    4.04.02 Freedom of establishment
      4.04.02.01 The various activities
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.04 Free movement of persons and services
    4.04.03 Freedom to provide services
      4.04.03.01 The various services
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.04 Free movement of persons and services
    4.04.02 Freedom of establishment
      4.04.02.01 The various activities
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.04 Free movement of persons and services
    4.04.03 Freedom to provide services
      4.04.03.01 The various services


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 07/12/2015

Date of the Opinion

  • 26/04/2017

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

16/11/2017


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 22 from 22.01.2018, p.3

Application: OJ C 98 from 14.03.2016, p.19

Name of the parties

Robeco Hollands Bezit and Others

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Van Praag, E.J.: Wat is een handelsplatform onder MiFID I(I)?, Ondernemingsrecht 2018 p.251-255 (NL)
  2. Cazet, Safia: Services financiers - Marchés réglementés, Europe 2018, Janvier nº 1, Comm. 13 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven - Netherlands

Subject-matter

  • Internal market - Principles
  • Freedom of establishment
  • Free movement of capital

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

quatrième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Vajda

Advocate General

Campos Sánchez-Bordona

Language(s) of the Case

  • Dutch

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • Spanish