Judgment of the Court (First Chamber), 28 February 2013

European Commission v Kingdom of Spain

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Development of the Community’s railways — Directive 2001/14/EC — Allocation of railway infrastructure capacity — Levying of charges — Charges — Management independence

Case C‑483/10


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
05/04/2013 Commission v Spain
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2013:114
28/02/2013 Commission v Spain
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2013:114
28/02/2013 Commission v Spain
Order
ECLI:EU:C:2011:568
08/09/2011 Commission v Spain
Order
ECLI:EU:C:2011:81
16/02/2011 Commission v Spain
Application (OJ)
04/12/2010 Commission v Spain
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2012:524
06/09/2012 Commission v Spain
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Reports of Cases

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

Subject-matter

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Infringement of Article 10(7) of Council Directive 91/440/EEC of 29 July 1991 on the development of the Community’s railways (OJ 1991 L 237, p. 25) and of Articles 4(1), 11, 13(2), 14(1) and 30(1) of Directive 2001/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2001 on the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure and safety certification (OJ 2001 L 75, p. 29) – Charges – Management independence

Systematic classification scheme

1.
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.07 Transport
    4.07.01 Common transport policy
3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.03 Defences
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.07 Transport
    4.07.01 Common transport policy
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.07 Transport
    4.07.01 Common transport policy
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.07 Transport
    4.07.01 Common transport policy


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 06/10/2010

Date of the Opinion

  • 06/09/2012

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

28/02/2013


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 328 from 04.12.2010, p.25

Judgment: OJ C 114 from 20.04.2013, p.6

Name of the parties

Commission v Spain

Notes on Academic Writings

Information not available



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Information not available

Subject-matter

  • Transport

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Action for a declaration of failure to fulfil obligations : application granted

Formation of the Court

première chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Borg Barthet

Advocate General

Jääskinen

Language(s) of the Case

  • Spanish

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • French