CELEX: 62014CA0163
Language: en
Date: 2016-01-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-163/14: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 January 2016 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Article 343 TFEU — Protocol on the privileges and immunities of the European Union — Article 3 — Tax exemptions — Brussels-Capital Region — Contributions in respect of the supply of electricity and gas)

14.3.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 98/5
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 January 2016 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-163/14) (1)
   
   ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Article 343 TFEU - Protocol on the privileges and immunities of the European Union - Article 3 - Tax exemptions - Brussels-Capital Region - Contributions in respect of the supply of electricity and gas))
   (2016/C 098/05)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: F. Clotuche-Duvieusart and I. Martínez del Peral, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: J.-C Halleux, S. Vanrie and T. Materne, Agents, assisted by G. Block, D. Remy and H. Delahaije, avocats)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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               Declares that by not exempting the EU institutions from the contributions laid down by Article 26 of the Order concerning the organisation of the electricity market in the Brussels-Capital Region and by Article 20 of the Order concerning the organisation of the gas market in the Brussels-Capital Region, as amended, and by objecting to the refund of the contributions thereby collected by the Brussels-Capital Region, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under the second paragraph of Article 3 of the Protocol of 8 April 1965 on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Union, originally annexed to the Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities, and subsequently under the Treaty of Lisbon, as Protocol No 7, annexed to the TEU, the TFEU and the Euratom Treaty;
            
         
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               Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 184, 16.6.2014.