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Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 88 -P2 : paragraph 3
• TFEU, Article 108 -P2 : paragraph 36
• TFEU, Article 108 -P3 : paragraph 14
• TFEU, Article 267 : paragraphs 50, 51, 54 - 56, 78 - 80
• Decision 2011/5 : paragraphs 8, 32, 39, 44, 45, 48, 49
• Decision 2011/5 -A01 : paragraph 43
• Decision 2011/5 -A01P1 : paragraphs 5, 38, 40
• Decision 2011/5 -A01P2 : paragraphs 1, 6, 33, 36, 42, 43
• Decision 2011/5 -A01P3 : paragraph 6
• Decision 2011/5 -A04P1 : paragraph 33
• Decision 2011/5 -C4 : paragraph 3
• Decision 2011/5 -C5 : paragraph 3
• Decision 2011/5 -C6 : paragraph 3
• Decision 2011/282 : paragraphs 39, 43, 46
• Decision 2011/282 -A01P1 : paragraph 9
• Decision 2011/282 -A01P2 : paragraph 10
• Decision 2011/282 -A01P3 : paragraph 10
• Decision 2011/282 -A01P4 : paragraph 10
• Decision 2011/282 -A01P5 : paragraph 10
• Decision 2011/282 -A04 : paragraphs 11, 38, 40
• Decision 2015/314 : paragraphs 1, 13, 36, 38 - 40, 42, 43, 47, 48
• Commission - Other Acts - 52013XC0907(02) : paragraph 1
• Commission - Other Acts - 52013XC0907(02 : paragraph 12
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -61/65 : paragraph 51
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -103/88 -N30 : paragraph 78
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -103/88 -N31 : paragraph 78
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -103/88 -N32 : paragraph 78
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -103/88 -N33 : paragraph 78
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -24/92 -N15 : paragraph 62
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -110/98 : paragraph 54
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -516/99 -N38 : paragraph 76
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -516/99 -N39 : paragraph 76
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -516/99 -N40 : paragraph 76
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -53/03 -N29 : paragraph 51
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -53/03 -N31 : paragraph 69
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -506/04 -N51 : paragraph 58
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -243/09 -N61 : paragraph 78
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -243/09 -N63 : paragraph 78
• General Court - Judgment T -219/10 : paragraph 44
• General Court - Judgment T -219/10 : paragraphs 38, 40, 41
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -394/11 -N52 : paragraph 79
• General Court - Judgment T -399/11 : paragraphs 38, 40, 41
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -222/13 -N29 : paragraph 62
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -222/13 -N32 : paragraphs 60, 63
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -222/13 -N35 : paragraph 60
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -203/14 : paragraph 70
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -396/14 : paragraph 71
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -20/15 : paragraph 41
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -503/15 -N27 : paragraph 51
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -503/15 -N38 : paragraph 61
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -64/16 -N43 : paragraph 56
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -64/16 -N44 : paragraph 57
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -64/16 -N45 : paragraph 58
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -378/17 -N36 : paragraph 78
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -378/17 -N38 : paragraph 78
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -619/18 -N76 : paragraph 59

Operative part

Information not available

Opinion

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 47 : point 4
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 47 -L2 : point 31
  
• TFEU, Article 267 : points 1, 7, 11, 12, 15, 35, 36, 43
  
• TEU, Article 2 : point 4
  
• TEU, Article 19 -P2 : point 4
  
• Decision 2011/5 : point 8
  
• Decision 2011/5 -A01P1 : point 10
  
• Decision 2011/5 -A04 : point 10
  
• Decision 2015/314 : points 8, 10
  
• Commission - Other Acts - 52013XC0907(02) : point 8
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -110/98 : point 1
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -110/98 -N15 : point 2
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -110/98 -N16 : points 2, 26
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -110/98 : points 4, 7, 12, 14, 15, 43
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -110/98 -N39 : point 3
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -17/00 -N26 : point 1
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -17/00 -N28 : point 1
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -506/04 -N45 : point 32
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -506/04 -N49 : point 41
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -506/04 -N53 : point 38
  
• General Court - Judgment T -219/10 : point 10
  
• General Court - Judgment T -219/10 : point 10
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -20/15 : point 10
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -503/15 -N37 : points 33, 42
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -503/15 -N38 : point 33
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -503/15 -N41 : point 34
  
• 62015TN0252 : point 10
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -64/16 : points 5, 15
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -64/16 -N38 : point 12
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -64/16 -N43 : point 6
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -64/16 -N44 : points 6, 39
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -64/16 -N45 : points 6, 37
  
• 62019CN0063 : point 10
  

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 05/06/2014

Date of the Opinion

• 01/10/2019

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

21/01/2020

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 77 from 09.03.2020, p.2

Application: OJ C 303 from 08.09.2014, p.15

Name of the parties

Banco de Santander

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Leloup, Mathieu: Het arrest Banco de Santander: naar een verstrenging van het onafhankelijkheidsbegrip onder artikel 267 VWEU? 21 januari 2020, zaak C-274/14, Banco de Santander, S.E.W. : Tijdschrift voor Europees en economisch recht 2020 p. 406-409 (NL)
2. Rigaux, Anne: Renvoi préjudiciel - Notion de juridiction, Europe 2020, nº 3 Mars, Comm. 92 (FR)
3. Eijnden, Paulien Maria van den: Banco de Santander SA : noot, Administratiefrechtelijke beslissingen ; Rechtspraak bestuursrecht 2020 nº 20 p. 1217-1221 (NL)
4. Jánošíková, Martina: Nie každý súd je súdom oprávneným iniciovať prejudiciálne konanie pred Súdnym dvorom, Bulletin slovenskej advokácie 2020 n° 3 p. 40-42 (SK)
5. Concellón Fernández, PIlar: El concepto de órgano jurisdiccional nacional: una noción en permanente revisión, Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo 2020 nº 66 p. 629-658 (ES)
6. Butler, Graham: Independence of non-judicial bodies and orders for a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice, European Law Review 2020, vol. 45, n. 6, p. 870-887 (EN)
7. Wildemeersch, Jonathan: V. Questions préjudicielles - Cour de justice, gde ch., 21 janvier 2020, Banco de Santander, aff. C-274/14, ECLI:EU:C:2020:17, Jurisprudence de la CJUE 2020. Décisions et commentaires (Ed. Bruylant - Bruxelles) 2021, p. 333-355 (FR)
8. Bogdanowicz, Piotr ; Taborowski, Maciej: The independence criterion for national courts in the preliminary reference procedure after Banco de Santander: Still the joker in the deck?, Common Market Law Review 2023, Volume 60, Issue 3, p. 763-796 (EN)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Tribunal Económico Administrativo Central - Spain

Subject-matter

• Competition
  
• - State aid
  

Provisions of national law referred to

Real Decreto Legislativo 4/2004, de 5 de marzo, por el que se aprueba el texto refundido de la Ley del Impuesto sobre Sociedades

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling : dismissal on grounds of inadmissibility
  

Formation of the Court

grande chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Prechal

Advocate General

Hogan

Language(s) of the Case

• Spanish
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

• English