CELEX: C2007/020/16
Language: en
Date: 2007-01-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-486/06: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep te Antwerpen (Belgium) lodged on 27 November 2006 — BVBA Van Landeghem v Belgian State

27.1.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 20/12
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep te Antwerpen (Belgium) lodged on 27 November 2006 — BVBA Van Landeghem v Belgian State
   (Case C-486/06)
   (2007/C 20/17)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   Referring court
   Hof van beroep te Antwerpen
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: BVBA Van Landeghem
   
      Defendant: Belgian State
   Question referred
   
      ‘Should pick-ups — that is to say, motor vehicles consisting, on the one hand, of an enclosed cabin for use as a passenger compartment, there being behind the driver's seat folding or removable seats with three-point safety belts, and, on the other hand, of a load space which is separated from the cabin, is not higher than 50 centimetres, can be opened only at the rear and has no facilities for attaching a load — which were equipped with a highly luxurious, full-option interior (including electrically adjustable seats, leather seats, electrically operated mirrors and windows, a stereo with a CD player, etc.), an ABS braking system, an automatic, 4 to 8-litre, very high fuel-consumption engine, four-wheel drive and luxurious (sports) rims, be classified, if put into circulation and released for home use in the period between 10 April 1995 and 4 December 1997, under heading 87.03 of the then applicable combined nomenclature (originally introduced by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (1) of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature), as motor cars and other motor vehicles, principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading No 87.02), including motor vehicles of the “station wagon” or “break” type and racing cars, or under heading 87.04 of the then applicable combined nomenclature as motor vehicles for the transport of goods, or under a heading other than headings 87.03 or 87.04 of the then applicable combined nomenclature?’
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 256, p. 1.