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Document 62016TO0716

Order of the General Court (First Chamber) of 19 July 2017.
Pfizer Ltd and Pfizer santé familiale v European Commission.
Action for annulment — Customs union — Common Customs Tariff — Tariff and statistical nomenclature — Classification in the Combined Nomenclature — Tariff subheadings — Customs duties applicable to goods classified under those tariff subheadings — Regulatory act entailing implementing measures — Lack of individual concern — Inadmissibility.
Case T-716/16.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

Order of the General Court (First Chamber) of 19 July 2017 – Pfizer et Pfizer santé familiale v Commission

(Case T-716/16)

(Action for annulment — Customs union — Common Customs Tariff — Tariff and statistical nomenclature — Classification in the Combined Nomenclature — Tariff subheadings — Customs duties applicable to goods classified under those tariff subheadings — Regulatory act entailing implementing measures — Lack of individual concern — Inadmissibility)

1. 

Actions for annulment–Natural or legal persons–Measures of direct and individual concern to them–Tariff classification rules–Whether applicant individually affected–Criteria

(Art. 263, al. 4, TFEU; Commission Regulation No 2016/1140, Art. 1)

(see paras 31-33, 59-62)

2. 

Actions for annulment–Natural or legal persons–Regulatory acts entailing implementing measures–Meaning–Tariff classification rules–Included–Court remedies available against such measures–Existence of internal remedies against the implementation measures

(Art. 263, line 4, TFEU; Commission Regulation No 2016/1140)

(see paras 36-39, 51, 54)

3. 

Common Customs Tariff–Classification of goods–Binding tariff information–Scope–Protection of the economic operator against a possible change of the interpretation given by the customs authorities of the legislation in force–Limits–Change to that legislation–Article 12 of the EU customs code

(Parliament and Council Regulation No 952/2013, Art. 12)

(see para 74)

Re:

ACTION pursuant to Article 263 TFEU seeking partial annulment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2016/1140 of 8 July 2016 concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature (OJ 2016 L 189, p. 1).

Operative part

1. 

The action is dismissed as inadmissible.

2. 

Pfizer Ltd and Pfizer Santé familiale shall pay the costs.

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