Judgment_paragraph 5 · Staat der Nederlanden v Essent NV (C‑105/12), Essent Nederland BV (C‑105/12), Eneco Holding NV (C‑106/12) and Delta NV (C‑107/12) (C-105/12, C-106/12, C-107/12)

5The wording of recitals 4, 6 and 7 in the preamble to 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) corresponded to that of recitals 4, 5 and 6 in the preamble to Directive 2003/54. The drafting of recitals 8 and 23 in the preamble to Directive 2003/55 corresponded, mutatis mutandis, to that of recitals 7 and 23 in the preamble to Directive 2003/54.