62023CJ0061_SUM
Case C‑61/23
‘Еkоstroy’ EOOD
v
Agentsia ‘Patna infrastruktura’
(Request for a preliminary rulingfrom the Administrativen sad – Haskovo)
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 21 November 2024
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Road transport – Tax provisions – Directive 1999/62/EC – Charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures – Penalties applicable to infringements of the national provisions adopted under that directive – Article 9a – Requirement of proportionality – National legislation penalising all offences by means of a flat-rate fine)
Transport – Road transport – Tax provisions – Harmonisation of laws – Directive 1999/62 – Charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures – Member States’ obligation to establish effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties – Scope – Imposition of a flat-rate fine or financial penalty for offences, irrespective of their nature and gravity – Not permissible – Possibility of exemption through the payment of a flat-rate redress charge – Irrelevant – Breach of the principle of proportionality
(European Parliament and Council Directive 1999/62, as amended by Directive 2011/76, Arts 7 and 9a)
(see paragraphs 39-47, 51-57, operative part)
See the text of the decision.