“Pursuant to the freedom of establishment under article 49FEU and the freedom to provide services under 56FEU of the FEU Treaty, an economic operator in a member state could, before the courts of that member state, allege an infringement of the obligation of transparency under those articles occurring at the time of conclusion of an agreement whereby one or more public entities of that member state had either granted to an economic operator of that same member state a licence for services of certain cross-border interest or granted an economic operator the exclusive right to engage in an economic activity of cross-border interest.”
WLR Daily, 14th November 2013
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