CELEX: 62019CA0870
Language: en
Date: 2021-03-24 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-870/19 and C-871/19: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 24 March 2021 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione — Italy) — Prefettura Ufficio territoriale del governo di Firenze v MI (C-870/19), TB (C-871/19) (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Approximation of laws — Recording equipment in road transport — Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 — Article 15(7) — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Control proceedings — Administrative penalty — Failure to produce the record sheets for the tachograph relating to the current day and the previous 28 days — Single or multiple infringement)

17.5.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 189/3
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 24 March 2021 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione — Italy) — Prefettura Ufficio territoriale del governo di Firenze v MI (C-870/19), TB (C-871/19)
      (Joined Cases C-870/19 and C-871/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Approximation of laws - Recording equipment in road transport - Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 - Article 15(7) - Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 - Control proceedings - Administrative penalty - Failure to produce the record sheets for the tachograph relating to the current day and the previous 28 days - Single or multiple infringement)
      (2021/C 189/03)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Referring court
      
      Corte suprema di cassazione
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Prefettura Ufficio territoriale del governo di Firenze
      
         Defendants: MI (C-870/19), TB (C-871/19)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 15(7) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 of 20 December 1985 on recording equipment in road transport, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 and Article 19 of Regulation No 561/2006 must be interpreted as meaning that, should the driver of a road transport vehicle subject to an inspection fail to produce the record sheets of the recording equipment relating to several days of activity during the period covering the day of the inspection and the previous 28 days, the competent authorities of the Member State where the inspection was carried out must make a finding of a single infringement by that driver and impose on him or her only a single penalty for that infringement.
      
         (1)  OJ C 54, 17.2.2020.