Press Release: Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-17/03. Vereniging voor Energie, Milieu en Water and Others v. Directeur van de Dienst uitvoering en toezicht energie. The grant of preferential access to the cross-border electricity transmission network to an undertaking which previously held a monopoly, because of contracts concluded prior to the liberalisation of the market, amounts to discrimination prohibited by the second Electricity Directive