CELEX: 62009CA0160
Language: en
Date: 2010-05-20 00:00:00
Title: Case C-160/09: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 20 May 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Simvoulio tis Epikratias (Greece)) — Ioannis Katsivardas — Nikolaos Tsitsikas OE v Ipourgos Ikonomikon (Regulation (EEC) No 1591/84 — Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community, of the one part, and the Cartagena Agreement and the member countries thereof, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, of the other part — Most-favoured-nation clause — Direct effect — Excise duty on the import of bananas into Greece)

3.7.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 179/13
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 20 May 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Simvoulio tis Epikratias (Greece)) — Ioannis Katsivardas — Nikolaos Tsitsikas OE v Ipourgos Ikonomikon
   (Case C-160/09) (1)
   
   (Regulation (EEC) No 1591/84 - Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community, of the one part, and the Cartagena Agreement and the member countries thereof, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, of the other part - Most-favoured-nation clause - Direct effect - Excise duty on the import of bananas into Greece)
   2010/C 179/20
   Language of the case: Greek
   
      Referring court
   
   Simvoulio tis Epikratias
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Ioannis Katsivardas — Nikolaos Tsitsikas OE
   
      Defendant: Ipourgos Ikonomikon
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Simvoulio tis Epikratias — Interpretation of Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1591/84 of 4 June 1984 concerning the conclusion of the Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community, of the one part, and the Cartagena Agreement and the member countries thereof — Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela — of the other part (OJ 1984 L 153, p. 1) — Most-favoured-nation clause — Right of an individual seeking the refund of domestic tax to rely on the agreement in order to demonstrate the tax’s incompatibility with the agreement — Banana import regime
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 4 of the Cooperation Agreement concluded between the European Economic Community, of the one part, and the Cartagena Agreement and the member countries thereof — Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela — of the other part, approved by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1591/84 of 4 June 1984, is not such as to confer on individuals rights upon which they might rely before the courts of a Member State.
   
      (1)  OJ C 153, 4.7.2009.