CELEX: 62008CA0018
Language: en
Date: 2008-11-20 00:00:00
Title: Case C-18/08: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 20 November 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal d'instance de Bordeaux — France) — Foselev Sud-Ouest SARL v Administration des douanes et droits indirects (Tax on motor vehicles — Directive 1999/62/EC — Charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures — Article 6(2)(b) — Commission decision approving an exemption — No direct effect)

10.1.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 20 November 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal d'instance de Bordeaux — France) — Foselev Sud-Ouest SARL v Administration des douanes et droits indirects
   (Case C-18/08) (1)
   
   (Tax on motor vehicles - Directive 1999/62/EC - Charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures - Article 6(2)(b) - Commission decision approving an exemption - No direct effect)
   (2009/C 6/14)
   Language of the case: French
   Referring court
   Tribunal d'instance de Bordeaux
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Foselev Sud-Ouest SARL
   
      Defendant: Administration des douanes et droits indirects
   Re:
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Tribunal d'Instance de Bordeaux (France) — Interpretation of Commission Decision 2005/449/EC, concerning a request for exemption from the vehicle tax rules submitted by France pursuant to Article 6(2)(b) 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 (OJ 2005 L 158, p. 23) — Whether that decision has direct effect or, as an authorisation decision, requires a measure transposing it into national law?
   Operative part of the judgment
   Commission Decision 2005/449/EC of 20 June 2005 concerning a request for exemption from the vehicle tax rules submitted by France pursuant to Article 6(2)(b) of Directive 1999/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures cannot be relied on by an individual against the French Republic, to which that decision was addressed, in order to obtain the benefit of the exemption approved by that decision upon its notification or publication.
   
      (1)  OJ C 79, 29.3.2008.