CELEX: 62015CN0465
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-465/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 3 September 2015 — Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH v Hauptzollamt Duisburg

30.11.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 398/17
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 3 September 2015 — Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH v Hauptzollamt Duisburg
   (Case C-465/15)
   (2015/C 398/21)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Finanzgericht Düsseldorf
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH
   
      Defendant: Hauptzollamt Duisburg
   
      Question referred
   
   Is the third indent of Article 2(4)(b) of Council Directive (EC) No 2003/96 restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity (1) to be interpreted with respect to the blast furnace process for the production of pig iron as meaning that electricity for the propulsion of the turbo blower is to be regarded as electricity which is used principally for the purposes of chemical reduction?
   
      (1)  Council Directive 2003/96/EC of 27 October 2003 restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity (OJ 2003 L 283, p. 51).