CELEX: 61988CJ0019
Common Customs Tariff
Electronic components testers

Apparatus for measuring electrical quantities within the meaning of subheading 90.28 A II ( a ) of the Common Customs Tariff does not include apparatus which effects such measurements only for the purpose of checking electronic components for conformity .
Parties
In Case 19/88
REFERENCE to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the tribunal d' instance ( District Court ), Aulnay-sous-Bois ( France ), for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that Court between
International Container et Transport ( ICT ), a company constituted under French law, whose registered office is at the Charles de Gaulle Airport ( Roissy-en-France ),
BFI Electronique SA, a company constituted under French law, whose registered office is in Paris,
and
Direction générale des douanes et droits indirects, Roissy-en-France,
on the interpretation of subheading 90.28 A II ( a ) of the Common Customs Tariff,
THE COURT ( First Chamber ),
composed of : R . Joliet, President of Chamber, Sir Gordon Slynn and G . C . Rodríguez Iglesias, Judges,
( the grounds of the judgment are not reproduced )
in answer to the question referred to it by the tribunal d' instance, Aulnay-sous-Bois, by judgment of 23 July 1987,
hereby rules :
Operative part
Apparatus for measuring electrical quantities within the meaning of subheading 90.28 A II ( a ) of the Common Customs Tariff does not include apparatus which effects such measurements only for the purpose of checking electronic components for conformity .