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(Joined Cases C-364/18 and C-365/18) (*)
(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 94/22/EC - Energy - Conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons - Royalties - Methods of calculation - QE and PFOR indices - Discriminatory nature)
(2019/C 432/10)
Language of the case: Italian
(Case C-364/18)
Applicant: Eni SpA
Defendants: Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze
Interveners: Autorità di Regolazione per l’Energia, Reti e Ambiente, formerly Autorità per l’energia elettrica e il gas e il sistema idrico, Regione Basilicata, Comune di Viggiano, Regione Calabria, Comune di Ravenna, Assomineraria
Applicant: Shell Italia BV SpA
Defendants: Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze, Autorità di Regolazione per l’Energia, Reti e Ambiente, formerly Autorità per l’energia elettrica e il gas e il sistema idrico
Interveners: Regione Basilicata, Comune di Viggiano, Assomineraria
Article 6(1) of Directive 94/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 1994 on the conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons, read in the light of the sixth recital thereof, must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation under which the amount of royalties payable by holders of licences for the extraction of natural gas is calculated on the basis of an index based on the prices of oil and other fuels in the medium and long term and not an index that reflects the short-term market price of natural gas.
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Language of the case: Italian
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