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Case C-86/11: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 25 April 2013 — European Commission v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Taxation — Directive 2006/112/EC — Articles 9 and 11 — National legislation permitting the inclusion of non-taxable persons in a group of persons who may be regarded as a single taxable person for VAT purposes)

IO C 171, 15.6.2013, p. 4–4 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

15.6.2013   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 171/4


Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 25 April 2013 — European Commission v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

(Case C-86/11) (1)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Taxation - Directive 2006/112/EC - Articles 9 and 11 - National legislation permitting the inclusion of non-taxable persons in a group of persons who may be regarded as a single taxable person for VAT purposes)

2013/C 171/06

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: European Commission (represented by: R. Lyal, acting as Agent)

Defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: S. Hathaway, acting as Agent, and M. Hall QC)

Interveners in support of the defendant: Czech Republic (represented by: M. Smolek and T. Müller, acting as Agents), Kingdom of Denmark (represented: initially by C. Vang, and subsequently by V. Pasternak Jørgensen, acting as Agents), Ireland (represented by: D. O’Hagan, acting as Agent, assisted by G. Clohessy, SC, and N. Travers, BL), Republic of Finland (represented by: H. Leppo and S. Hartikainen, acting as Agents)

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Articles 9 and 11 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (OJ 2006 L 347, p. 1) — National legislation permitting the inclusion of non-taxable persons in a VAT group

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the action;

2.

Orders the European Commission to pay the costs;

3.

Orders the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark, Ireland and the Republic of Finland to bear their own respective costs.


(1)  OJ C 145, 14.5.2011.


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