CELEX: 62017CA0384
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-384/17: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 4 October 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Szombathelyi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság — Hungary) — Dooel Uvoz-Izvoz Skopje Link Logistic N&N v Budapest Rendőrfőkapitánya (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 — Toll — Obligation of the Member States to establish effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties — Flat-rate fine — Principle of proportionality — Direct applicability of the directive)

3.12.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 436/12
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 4 October 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Szombathelyi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság — Hungary) — Dooel Uvoz-Izvoz Skopje Link Logistic N&N v Budapest Rendőrfőkapitánya
      (Case C-384/17) (1)
      
      ((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 - Toll - Obligation of the Member States to establish effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties - Flat-rate fine - Principle of proportionality - Direct applicability of the directive))
      (2018/C 436/14)
      Language of the case: Hungarian
      
         Referring court
      
      Szombathelyi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Dooel Uvoz-Izvoz Skopje Link Logistic N&N
      
         Defendant: Budapest Rendőrfőkapitánya
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The requirement of proportionality in Article 9a of Directive 1999/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 1999 on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures, as amended by Directive 2011/76/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011, cannot be regarded as having direct effect.
      The national court must, by virtue of its duty to take all appropriate measures, whether general or particular, to ensure the implementation of that provision, interpret national law in conformity with that provision or, if such an interpretation is not possible, disapply any national provision in so far as its application would, in the circumstances of the case, lead to a result contrary to EU law.
      
         (1)  OJ C 318, 25.9.2017.