CELEX: C2005/093/03
Language: en
Date: 2005-04-16 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 17 February 2005 in Case C-134/03: (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Giudice di pace di Genova-Voltri) Viacom Outdoor Srl v Giotto Immobilier SARL (Freedom to provide services — Competition — Bill-posting services — Domestic legislation imposing a municipal tax on advertising — Supply by municipalities of a public bill-posting service — Power of the municipalities to regulate the supply of bill-posting services — Internal taxation not discriminatory)

16.4.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 93/2
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Third Chamber)
   of 17 February 2005
   in Case C-134/03: (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Giudice di pace di Genova-Voltri) Viacom Outdoor Srl v Giotto Immobilier SARL (1)
   
   (Freedom to provide services - Competition - Bill-posting services - Domestic legislation imposing a municipal tax on advertising - Supply by municipalities of a public bill-posting service - Power of the municipalities to regulate the supply of bill-posting services - Internal taxation not discriminatory)
   (2005/C 93/03)
   Language of the case: Italian
   In Case C-134/03: reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC from the Giudice di pace di Genova-Voltri (Italy), by decision of 10 March 2003, received at the Court on 25 March 2003, in the proceedings between Viacom Outdoor Srl v Giotto Immobilier SARL – the Court (Third Chamber), composed of A. Rosas (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, A. Borg Barthet, J.-P. Puissochet, J. Malenovský and U. Lõhmus, Judges; J. Kokott, Advocate General; L. Hewlett, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 17 February 2005, in which it rules that:
   
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               The questions concerning the interpretation of Articles 82 EC, 86 EC, 87 EC and 88 EC are inadmissible;
            
         
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               Article 49 EC does not preclude the levying of a tax such as the municipal tax on advertising imposed by the Decreto legislativo No 507 – Revisione ed armonizzazione dell'imposta comunale sulla pubblicità e del diritto sulle pubbliche affissioni (Legislative Decree No 507 revising and harmonising municipal advertising tax and bill-posting duty) of 15 November 1993.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 146 of 21.06.2003.