Case C-351/22, Neves 77 Solutions: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 10 September 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunalul Bucureşti – Romania) – Neves 77 Solutions SRL v Agenția Națională de Administrare Fiscală – Direcția Generală Antifraudă Fiscală (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) – Restrictive measures adopted in view of the actions of the Russian Federation destabilising the situation in Ukraine – Decision 2014/512/CFSP – Article 2(2)(a) – Jurisdiction of the Court – Final sentence of the second subparagraph of Article 24(1) TEU – Article 275 TFEU – Article 215 TFEU – Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Right to property – Principle of legal certainty and principle that penalties must be defined by law – Brokering services in relation to military equipment – Prohibition on providing such services – Failure to notify the competent national authorities – Administrative offence – Fine – Automatic confiscation of the amounts received in consideration for the prohibited transaction)
Date: 2024-09-10
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, Russo-Ukrainian issue, administrative offence, commercial transaction, economic sanctions, international sanctions, military equipment, ownership, powers of the institutions (EU), principle of legal certainty








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C/2024/6221


28.10.2024






Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 10 September 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunalul Bucureşti – Romania) – Neves 77 Solutions SRL v Agenția Națională de Administrare Fiscală – Direcția Generală Antifraudă Fiscală


(Case C-351/22, Neves 77 Solutions)
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(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) - Restrictive measures adopted in view of the actions of the Russian Federation destabilising the situation in Ukraine - Decision 2014/512/CFSP - Article 2(2)(a) - Jurisdiction of the Court - Final sentence of the second subparagraph of Article 24(1) TEU - Article 275 TFEU - Article 215 TFEU - Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Right to property - Principle of legal certainty and principle that penalties must be defined by law - Brokering services in relation to military equipment - Prohibition on providing such services - Failure to notify the competent national authorities - Administrative offence - Fine - Automatic confiscation of the amounts received in consideration for the prohibited transaction)
(C/2024/6221)
Language of the case: Romanian

Referring court

Tribunalul Bucureşti

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Neves 77 Solutions SRL

Defendant: Agenția Națională de Administrare Fiscală – Direcţia Generală Antifraudă Fiscală

Operative part of the judgment







1.


Article 2(2)(a) of Council Decision 2014/512/CFSP of 31 July 2014 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine, as amended by Council Decision 2014/659/CFSP of 8 September 2014,
must be interpreted as meaning that the prohibition on providing brokering services laid down in that provision is applicable even where the military equipment that was the subject of the brokering transaction concerned was never imported into the territory of a Member State.










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Article 2(2)(a) of Decision 2014/512, as amended by Decision 2014/659, read in the light of Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and of the principle of legal certainty and the principle that penalties must be defined by law,
must be interpreted as not precluding a national measure confiscating the entire proceeds of a brokering transaction referred to in Article 2(2)(a), which is implemented automatically following a finding by the competent national authorities of an infringement of the prohibition on carrying out that transaction and of the obligation to notify that transaction.






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            OJ C 368, 26.9.2022.


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