CELEX: 62010CJ0596
Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations
Value Added Tax
Directive 2006/112/EC
Application of reduced VAT rates to transactions concerning equidae and in particular to horses

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Articles 96 to 99 of Annex III to Council Directive 2006/112/EC
of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (OJ 2006 L 347, p. 1) — Application of a reduced rate of VAT to
transactions concerning equidae and in particular to horses.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by applying reduced rates of value added tax to transactions relating to equidae and, in particular, to horses,
when the latter are not as a matter of course intended for use in the preparation of foodstuffs or in agricultural production,
the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 96 to 99 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November
2006 on the common system of value added tax, read in conjunction with Annex III thereto;
2.
Orders the French Republic to pay the costs;
3.
Orders Ireland to bear its own costs.