CELEX: 62010CJ0319
Common Customs Tariff
Combined nomenclature
Tariff classification
Boneless, frozen and salted chicken meat
Validity and interpretation of Regulations (EC) Nos 535/94, 1832/2002, 1871/2003, 2344/2003 and 1810/2004
Additional note 7 to Chapter 2 of the combined nomenclature
Decision of the WTO Dispute Settlement Body
Legal effects

Reference for a preliminary ruling – Rechtbank Haarlem – Interpretation and validity of Commission Regulation (EC) No 535/94
of 9 March 1994 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on
the Common Customs Tariff (OJ 1994 L 68, p. 15), Commission Regulation (EC) No 1832/2002 of 1 August 2002 amending Annex I
to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ 2002
L 290, p. 1), Commission Regulation (EC) No 1871/2003 of 23 October 2003 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87
on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ 2003 L 275, p. 5) and Commission Regulation
(EC) No 2344/2003 of 30 December 2003 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical
nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ 2003 L 346, p. 38) – Boneless, frozen, salted chicken cuts – Tariff classification.
Operative part
The Court:
Declares that, in circumstances such as those in the main proceedings, in which the declarations for the customs procedure
for ‘release for free circulation’ were made before 27 September 2005, it is not possible to rely on the decision of 27 September
2005 of the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), adopting a report by the WTO appellate body (WT/DS269/AB/R,
WT/DS286/AB/R) and two reports by a special WTO group (WT/DS269/R and WT/DS286/R), as amended by the appellate body, either
in the interpretation of the additional note 7 to Chapter 2 of the combined nomenclature in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1810/2004
of 7 September 2004 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical
nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, or in assessment of the validity of that additional note.