Judgment_paragraph 27 · Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (C-503/99)

27First of all, the safeguarding of a country's energy supplies constitutes an overriding requirement of the general interest, as the Court has previously held, with regard to electricity supplies, in Case C-393/92 Almelo [1994] ECR I-1477, paragraphs 46 to 50, and, as regards petroleum products, in Case 72/83 Campus Oil and Others [1984] ECR 2727, paragraph 34.

Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (C-503/99)

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