30.7.2011

Official Journal of the European Union

C 226/8

(Case C-361/10) (<span class="super">1</span>)

(Internal market - Technical standards and regulations - Procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and rules on Information Society services - Minimum safety requirements for certain old electrical installations at places of work)

2011/C 226/13

Language of the case: French

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicants: Intercommunale Intermosane SCRL, Fédération de l’industrie et du gaz

Defendant: État belge

Re:

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Conseil d’État — Interpretation of Article 1(11) and the first subparagraph of Article 8(1) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (OJ 1998 L 204, p. 37) — Procedure for the provision of information and rules on information society services — Obligation to notify draft technical regulations — Minimum safety requirements for certain old electrical installations at places of work

Operative part of the judgment

Article 1(11) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society services, as amended by Directive 98/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 July 1998, must be interpreted as meaning that national provisions such as those at issue in the main proceedings do not amount to technical regulations, within the meaning of that provision, the drafts of which must be the subject of the communication provided for in the first subparagraph of Article 8(1) of that directive.

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Language of the case: French.

ECLI:EU:C:2011:140