Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 3 October 2019 — Mitnitsa Burgas

(Case C‑652/18) ( 1 )

(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Controls of cash entering or leaving the European Union — Regulation (EC) No 1889/2005 — Article 3(1) — Infringement of the obligation to declare — Article 9(1) — Penalties provided for by national law — National legislation — Fine and confiscation of the undeclared sum by the State — Proportionality)

Free movement of capital and liberalisation of payments — Controls of cash entering or leaving the European Union — Regulation No 1889/2005 — Obligation to declare — Infringement — Penalties — National legislation providing for the imposition of an administrative fine and the confiscation of the undeclared sum by the State — Not permissible — Breach of principle of proportionality

(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1889/2005, Arts 3, 4(2) and 9(1))

(see paras 29, 31-34, 36, operative part 1)

Operative part

Article 9(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on controls of cash entering or leaving the Community must be interpreted as precluding national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which, for the purpose of penalising an infringement of the obligation to declare provided for in Article 3 of that regulation, provides that, in addition to the imposition of an administrative fine, the undeclared sum is to be confiscated by the State.

( 1 ) JO C 4 du 7.1.2019.