Secab Soc. coop. v Autorità di Regolazione per Energia Reti e Ambiente (ARERA) and Gestore dei servizi energetici (GSE) SpA (C-423/23)

Judgment of 22 Jan 2026

law://eu/cjeu/2023/c-423-23/para_28@2026-11-13

28As a preliminary matter, it should be recalled that, in the procedure laid down by Article 267 TFEU providing for cooperation between national courts and the Court of Justice, it is for the latter to provide the referring court with an answer which will be of use to it and enable it to determine the case before it. To that end, the Court should, where necessary, reformulate the questions referred to it. The Court may also find it necessary to consider provisions of EU law which the national court has not referred to in its questions (see judgments of 28 November 2000, Roquette Frères, C‑88/99, EU:C:2000:652, paragraph 18, and of 1 August 2025, Alace and Canpelli, C‑758/24 and C‑759/24, EU:C:2025:591, paragraph 44).

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Key facts

Court: Court of Justice · Fourth Chamber
Case: C-423/23 · ECLI:EU:C:2026:32
Decided: 22 Jan 2026
Procedure: Preliminary reference · referred by the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Lombardia (Regional Administrative Court, Lombardy, Italy)
Applicant: Secab Soc. coop.
Defendants: Autorità di Regolazione per Energia Reti e Ambiente (ARERA); Gestore dei servizi energetici (GSE) SpA
Interveners: Presidenza dei Consiglio dei Ministri; Ministero della Transizione ecologica and 4 more
Ministero dello Sviluppo economico; Associazione Italia Solare ETS; Assoidroelettrica; Elettricità Futura – Unione delle imprese elettriche italiane
Rapporteur: I. Jarukaitis
Advocate General: A. Rantos
Bench: 3 judges
I. Jarukaitis, M. Condinanzi, N. Jääskinen
Language: Italian
Official: CURIA · EUR-Lex 62023CJ0423

Topics

Economic and monetary policy Energy

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Cited by 2: Prokurator Prokuratury Rejonowej w Jarosławiu v V.B (C-601/24); XK and Others v SM (C-618/24)
Cites 3: Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (consolidated 2016); LC and CP v Commissione Territoriale per il riconoscimento della Protezione Internazionale di Roma – sezione procedure alla frontiera II (C-758/24); Roquette Frères SA v Direction des services fiscaux du Pas-de-Calais (C-88/99)