Case C-83/05: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 July 2006 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Freiburg — Germany) — Bernd Voigt (Completion of the internal market — Approximation of laws — Motor vehicles — Community type-approval procedure — Directive 70/156/EEC — Scope — Classification according to the technical characteristics of vehicle types — Effect on vehicle classification of a national regulation governing road traffic)
Date: 2006-09-16
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Community certification, EU law - national law, interpretation of the law, marketing standard, motor car, motor vehicle, speed control, technical standard

16.9.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 224/11

— by creating in national legislation some doubt as to who is
responsible for paying the remuneration owed to perfomers on
assignment of the rental right, the Portuguese Republic has
failed to comply with Article 4 of Directive 92/100, as
amended by Directive 2001/29/EC,
in conjunction with
Article 2(5) and (7) thereof;

2. Orders the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 82, 2.4.2005.

Operative part of the judgment

Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approxi-
mation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval
of motor vehicles and their trailers, as amended by Council Directive
92/53/EEC of 18 June 1992, is to be interpreted as meaning that it
does not preclude national rules which provide that a vehicle such as
the one in question in the main proceedings is not subject to the
national speed limits for passenger cars, even where that vehicle has
been registered as a passenger car on the basis of a Community type-
approval granted pursuant to that directive.

(1) OJ C 82 of 2.4.2005.

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 July 2006
(reference for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht
Freiburg — Germany) — Bernd Voigt

(Case C-83/05) (1)

(Completion of the internal market — Approximation of
laws — Motor vehicles — Community type-approval proce-
dure — Directive 70/156/EEC — Scope — Classification
according to the technical characteristics of vehicle types —
Effect on vehicle classification of a national regulation
governing road traffic)

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 13 July 2006
(reference for a preliminary ruling from the House of
Lords — United Kingdom) — United Utilities plc v
Commissioners of Customs & Excise

(Case C-89/05) (1)

(Sixth VAT Directive — Article 13B(f) — Exemption for
games of chance — Scope — Activity of a call centre)

(2006/C 224/19)

Language of the case: German

(2006/C 224/20)

Language of the case: English

Referring court

Amtsgericht Freiburg

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Bernd Voigt

Re:

Referring court

House of Lords

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: United Utilities plc

Defendant: Commissioners of Customs & Excise

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Amtsgericht Freiburg —
Interpretation of Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February
1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States
relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers
(OJ, English Special Edition 1970 (I), p. 96), as amended by
Council Directive 92/53/EEC of 18 June 1992 (OJ 1992 L 225
p. 1) — Registration by a Member State of a category M1
vehicle (passenger car) covered by Community type-approval
— Whether the national authorities may penalise the driver of
such a vehicle for road traffic offences which relate to goods
vehicles — Motorway speed limits applicable solely to goods
vehicles

Re:

Reference for a preliminary ruling — House of Lords — Inter-
pretation of Article 13B(f) of Directive 77/388/EEC: Sixth
Council Directive of 17 May 1977 on the harmonisation of the
laws of
the Member States relating to turnover taxes —
Common system of value added tax : uniform basis of assess-
ment (OJ 1977 L 145, p. 1) — Exemption of betting, lotteries
and other forms of gambling — Applicability to supplies of
services by a third company which accepts bets made by tele-
phone on behalf of another company