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Document 62023CN0645

Case C-645/23, Hera Comm: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte d’appello di Bologna (Italy) lodged on 26 October 2023 — Hera Comm SpA v Falconeri Srl

OJ C, C/2024/1083, 5.2.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/1083/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/1083/oj

Date of document:
26/10/2023
Date lodged:
26/10/2023
Author:
Court of Justice
Form:
Judicial information
Authentic language:
Italian
Type of procedure:
Reference for a preliminary ruling
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Series C

C/2024/1083

5.2.2024

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte d’appello di Bologna (Italy) lodged on 26 October 2023 — Hera Comm SpA v Falconeri Srl

(Case C-645/23, Hera Comm)

(C/2024/1083)

Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Corte d’appello di Bologna

Parties to the main proceedings

Appellant: Hera Comm SpA

Respondent: Falconeri Srl

Questions referred

1.

Does an additional tax on electricity excise duty, levied by the Member State as a fraction or multiple of the excise duty to which the product is already subject, fall within the concept of ‘other indirect taxes’ referred to in Article 1(2) of Council Directive 2008/118/EC of 16 December 2008 concerning the general arrangements for excise duty and repealing Directive 92/12/EEC, (1) or must it be understood as a mere increase in the rate of the excise duty, with the result that the Member State is at liberty not to use it for the ‘specific purposes’ required by Article 1(2) of Directive 2008/118/EC?

2.

If the additional tax on electricity excise duty falls within the concept of ‘other indirect taxes’, must Article 1(2) of Council Directive 2008/118/EC of 16 December 2008 be interpreted as meaning that it meets the conditions for being relied on by a private individual before a national court for the purposes of:

—

challenging the seller of the product subject to the additional excise duty, to which the private individual has paid the indirect tax, on the ground that the Member State’s tax charge to the vendor is unlawful because it is based on a national provision contrary to the Directive;

—

as a result, recovering from the vendor the undue payment that it claimed from him?

(1)   OJ 2009 L 9, p. 12.

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/1083/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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