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Document 62014CA0058
Case C-58/14: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof — Germany) — Hauptzollamt Hannover v Amazon EU Sàrl (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 — Customs union and Common Customs Tariff — Combined Nomenclature — Heading 8543 70 — Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in Chapter 85 of the Combined Nomenclature — Subheadings 8543 70 10 and 8543 70 90 — Reading devices for electronic books with translation or dictionary functions)
Case C-58/14: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof — Germany) — Hauptzollamt Hannover v Amazon EU Sàrl (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 — Customs union and Common Customs Tariff — Combined Nomenclature — Heading 8543 70 — Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in Chapter 85 of the Combined Nomenclature — Subheadings 8543 70 10 and 8543 70 90 — Reading devices for electronic books with translation or dictionary functions)
Case C-58/14: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof — Germany) — Hauptzollamt Hannover v Amazon EU Sàrl (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 — Customs union and Common Customs Tariff — Combined Nomenclature — Heading 8543 70 — Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in Chapter 85 of the Combined Nomenclature — Subheadings 8543 70 10 and 8543 70 90 — Reading devices for electronic books with translation or dictionary functions)
OJ C 270, 17.8.2015, p. 9–9
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
- Date of document:
- 11/06/2015
- Date lodged:
- 06/02/2014
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- Court of Justice
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- German
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- Reference for a preliminary ruling
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Case C-58/14: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof — Germany) — Hauptzollamt Hannover v Amazon EU Sàrl (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 — Customs union and Common Customs Tariff — Combined Nomenclature — Heading 8543 70 — Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in Chapter 85 of the Combined Nomenclature — Subheadings 8543 70 10 and 8543 70 90 — Reading devices for electronic books with translation or dictionary functions)
Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof — Germany) — Hauptzollamt Hannover v Amazon EU Sàrl
(Case C-58/14) ( 1 )
‛(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 — Customs union and Common Customs Tariff — Combined Nomenclature — Heading 8543 70 — Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in Chapter 85 of the Combined Nomenclature — Subheadings 8543 70 10 and 8543 70 90 — Reading devices for electronic books with translation or dictionary functions)’
2015/C 270/10Language of the case: GermanReferring court
Bundesfinanzhof
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Hauptzollamt Hannover
Defendant: Amazon EU Sàrl
Operative part of the judgment
The Combined Nomenclature in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 861/2010 of 5 October 2010, must be interpreted as meaning that a reading device for electronic books which has a translation or dictionary function must, where that function is not its principal function, that being a matter for the national court to ascertain, be classified under subheading 8543 70 90 and not under subheading 8543 70 10.
( 1 ) OJ C 142, 12.5.2014.
