Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 24 February 2022.#Latvijas Gāze' AS.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Satversmes tiesa.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Internal market in natural gas – Directive 2009/73/EC – Article 2(3) – Concept of ‘transmission’ – Article 23 – Decision-making powers regarding the connection of storage facilities, liquid natural gas regasification facilities and industrial customers to the transmission system – Article 32(1) – Access to the network for third parties – Possibility of direct connection for final customers to the natural gas transmission system.#Case C-290/20.