Judgment_paragraph 72 · D. Z. v Blue Air - Airline Management Solutions SRL (C-584/18)

72The Court has held that provisions of a directive that are unconditional and sufficiently precise may be relied upon by individuals, not only against a Member State and all the organs of its administration, but also against organisations or bodies, even ones governed by private law, which are subject to the authority or control of a public body, or to which a Member State has delegated the performance of a task in the public interest and which possess for that purpose special powers beyond those which result from the normal rules applicable to relations between individuals. It is necessary to prevent the State from taking advantage of its own failure to comply with EU law (see, to that effect, judgment of 10 October 2017, Farrell, C‑413/15, EU:C:2017:745, paragraphs 32, 34 and 35).