Preliminary ruling: The French administrative supreme court rules that regulated tariffs for natural gas do not serve any objective of general interest and are in violation of EU law (Association nationale des opérateurs détaillants en énergie)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Finding in favour of Decision rendered on July 19, 2017 that the regulated tariffs for the sale of natural gas do not pursue any objective of general economic interest, the Conseil d'État considers that their maintenance is contrary to Union law. It will be remembered that, having received an application from the National Association of Energy Retail Operators (ANODE) seeking the annulment of the Decree of 16 May 2013 on regulated tariffs for the sale of natural gas, the Council of State initially decided to stay proceedings and to refer a number of questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for a preliminary ruling: 1°) Intervention by a