CELEX: 62015CA0497
Language: en
Date: 2017-03-22 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-497/15 and C-498/15: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 22 March 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Szegedi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság — Hungary) — Euro-Team Kft. (Case C-497/15), Spirál-Gép Kft. (Case C-498/15) 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 — Member States' obligation to establish effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties — Flat-rate fine — Proportionality)

29.5.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 168/12
            
         Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 22 March 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Szegedi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság — Hungary) — Euro-Team Kft. (Case C-497/15), Spirál-Gép Kft. (Case C-498/15) v Budapest Rendőrfőkapitánya
   (Joined Cases C-497/15 and C-498/15) (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 - Member States' obligation to establish effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties - Flat-rate fine - Proportionality))
   (2017/C 168/13)
   Language of the case: Hungarian
   
      Referring court
   
   Szegedi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Euro-Team Kft. (Case C-497/15), Spirál-Gép Kft. (Case C-498/15)
   
      Defendant: Budapest Rendőrfőkapitánya
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
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               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, must be interpreted as meaning that the requirement set out therein of proportionality of the penalties which it covers precludes a system of penalties, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which provides for the imposition of a flat-rate fine for all offences, whatever their nature and gravity, under the rules on the obligation to make prior payment of the toll for use of a road infrastructure;
            
         
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               Article 9a of Directive 1999/62, as amended by Directive 2011/76, must be interpreted as meaning that the requirement of proportionality referred to therein does not preclude a system of penalties, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which institutes strict liability. However, it must be interpreted as precluding the level of the penalty provided for by that system.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 27, 25.1.2016.