Member States cannot impose a tax on the export of electricity produced on their territory, the European Court of Justice ruled in a judgement delivered on Thursday 6 December (Case C-305/17).
After the partial shutdown of the Jaslovské Bohunice nuclear power plant, the Slovak State imposed a fee of €6.8 million on the national supplier Korlea Invest (now FENS) for the export, within and outside the EU, of electricity produced in Slovakia. The latter challenged the legality of this...