Judgment_paragraph 45 · Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni v Istituto Nazionale di Statistica - ISTAT and Others (C-240/15)

45As regards, second, Article 12 of the Authorisation Directive, it must be recalled that the administrative charges which Member States may impose, under that article, on undertakings providing a service or a network under the general authorisation or to which a right of use has been granted, in order to finance NRA activities, must be exclusively intended to cover the overall administrative costs relating to the activities mentioned in Article 12(1)(a) of that directive. Those charges cannot therefore be intended to cover expenditure relating to tasks other than those listed in that provision, and in particular not administrative costs of any kind incurred by the NRA (see, to that effect, judgment of 18 July 2013, in Vodafone Omnitel and Others, C‑228/12 to C‑232/12 and C‑254/12 to C‑258/12, EU:C:2013:495, paragraphs 38 to 40 and 42).