8.9.2007   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 211/16


Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof (Germany), lodged on 13 June 2007 — Bayerische Hypotheken- und Vereinsbank AG v Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Jonas

(Case C-281/07)

(2007/C 211/31)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Bundesfinanzhof

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Bayerische Hypotheken- und Vereinsbank AG

Defendant: Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Jonas

Questions referred

1.

Must the first sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 of 18 December 1995 on the protection of the European Communities' financial interests (1) be applied to a claim for recovery of an export refund wrongly granted to an exporter, even if the latter did not commit an irregularity?

If this question is to be answered in the affirmative:

2.

Must this provision be applied mutatis mutandis to a claim for recovery of such benefits from the party to which the exporter has assigned its claim to the export refund?


(1)  OJ 1995 L 312, p. 1.