16The applicant, supported by the Czech Republic, submits that the Commission should have applied the procedure and substantive criteria laid down in Article 22 of Directive 2003/55/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2003 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas and repealing Directive 98/30/EC (OJ 2003 L 176, p. 57) (‘the Second Gas Directive’) and not those laid down in Article 36 of Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas and repealing Directive 2003/55 (OJ 2009 L 211, p. 94) (‘the Third Gas Directive’). While the decision of 26 October 2010 was notified to the Commission on 18 February 2011, it was only on 3 March 2011 that the Second Gas Directive was replaced by the Third Gas Directive.