Electricity: The Court of Justice of the European Union specifies dispute settlement conditions between household customer and an electricity distribution system operator (Energiavirasto)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article in French, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In a judgment of 23 January 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union interpreted Article 37 of Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity (OJEU L 211 of 14 August 2009, p. 55). At the end of its analysis, the Commission took the view that that provision does not require Member States to confer jurisdiction on the regulatory authority to settle disputes between household customers and system operators. Consequently, that authority cannot grant a household customer who has complained to it against a system operator the status of a 'party'