CELEX: 62013CA0480
Language: en
Date: 2014-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-480/13: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 17 July 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Hamburg (Germany)) — Sysmex Europe GmbH v Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Hafen (Request for a preliminary ruling — Tariff classification — Common Customs Tariff — Combined Nomenclature — Headings 3204, 3212 and 3822 — Substance producing, by chemical reaction and exposure to a laser light, a fluorescent effect intended for the analysis of white blood cells)

15.9.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 315/24
            
         Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 17 July 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Hamburg (Germany)) — Sysmex Europe GmbH v Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Hafen
   (Case C-480/13) (1)
   
   ((Request for a preliminary ruling - Tariff classification - Common Customs Tariff - Combined Nomenclature - Headings 3204, 3212 and 3822 - Substance producing, by chemical reaction and exposure to a laser light, a fluorescent effect intended for the analysis of white blood cells))
   2014/C 315/35
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Finanzgericht Hamburg
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Sysmex Europe GmbH
   
      Defendant: Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Hafen
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Combined Nomenclature set out in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1810/2004 of 7 September 2004, must be interpreted as meaning that a product, composed of solvents and of a polymethine-based substance, which, although it may have a weak and non-permanent dyeing effect on textiles, is not in practice used for its dyeing properties and is intended exclusively for the analysis of white blood cells, by means of the deposition of ions in defined components of those blood cells, which, when exposed to laser light, become fluorescent for a limited period, comes under heading 3822 of the Combined Nomenclature relating to laboratory reagents.
   
      (1)  OJ C 352, 30.11.2013.