CELEX: C2007/183/17
Language: en
Date: 2007-08-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-56/06: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 14 June 2007 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Düsseldorf, Germany) — Euro Tex Textilverwertung GmbH v Hauptzollamt Duisburg (Association between the European Communities and their Member States and the Republic of Poland — Concept of originating products — Used clothing)

4.8.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 183/11
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 14 June 2007 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Düsseldorf, Germany) — Euro Tex Textilverwertung GmbH v Hauptzollamt Duisburg
   (Case C-56/06) (1)
   
   (Association between the European Communities and their Member States and the Republic of Poland - Concept of ‘originating products’ - Used clothing)
   (2007/C 183/17)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Finanzgericht Düsseldorf
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Euro Tex Textilverwertung GmbH
   
      Defendant: Hauptzollamt Duisburg
   Re:
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Finanzgericht Düsseldorf — Interpretation of Article 7(1)(b) of Protocol 4 to the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Poland, of the other part — Protocol 4 concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation (OJ 1993 L 348, p. 2), as amended by Decision No 1/97 of the Association Council, Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Poland, of the other part, of 30 June 1997 (OJ 1997 L 221, p. 1) — Concept of ‘originating products’ — Determination of the origin of used items of clothing which have been separated and sorted within the Community
   Operative part of the judgment
   Since Article 7(1)(b) of Protocol 4 to the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Poland, of the other part, as amended by Decision No 1/97 of the Association Council, Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Poland, of the other part, of 30 June 1997 does not make it possible to draw a distinction between simple and more complex matching operations, matching operations such as those described in the order for reference are covered by the concept of simple operations of matching for the purposes of that provision.
   
      (1)  OJ C 86, 8.4.2006.