CELEX: C2006/224/19
Language: en
Date: 2006-09-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-83/05: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 July 2006 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Freiburg — Germany) — Bernd Voigt (Completion of the internal market — Approximation of laws — Motor vehicles — Community type-approval procedure — Directive 70/156/EEC — Scope — Classification according to the technical characteristics of vehicle types — Effect on vehicle classification of a national regulation governing road traffic)

16.9.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 224/11
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 July 2006 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Freiburg — Germany) — Bernd Voigt
   (Case C-83/05) (1)
   
   (Completion of the internal market - Approximation of laws - Motor vehicles - Community type-approval procedure - Directive 70/156/EEC - Scope - Classification according to the technical characteristics of vehicle types - Effect on vehicle classification of a national regulation governing road traffic)
   (2006/C 224/19)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Amtsgericht Freiburg
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Bernd Voigt
   Re:
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Amtsgericht Freiburg — Interpretation of Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers (OJ, English Special Edition 1970 (I), p. 96), as amended by Council Directive 92/53/EEC of 18 June 1992 (OJ 1992 L 225 p. 1) — Registration by a Member State of a category M1 vehicle (passenger car) covered by Community type-approval — Whether the national authorities may penalise the driver of such a vehicle for road traffic offences which relate to goods vehicles — Motorway speed limits applicable solely to goods vehicles
   Operative part of the judgment
   Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, as amended by Council Directive 92/53/EEC of 18 June 1992, is to be interpreted as meaning that it does not preclude national rules which provide that a vehicle such as the one in question in the main proceedings is not subject to the national speed limits for passenger cars, even where that vehicle has been registered as a passenger car on the basis of a Community type-approval granted pursuant to that directive.
   
      (1)  OJ C 82 of 2.4.2005.