CELEX: 62010CA0383
Language: en
Date: 2013-06-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-383/10: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 6 June 2013 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Articles 56 TFEU and 63 TFEU — Articles 36 and 40 of the EEA Agreement — Tax legislation — Tax exemption reserved to interest payments by resident banks and excluding interest payments by banks established abroad)

3.8.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 225/2
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 6 June 2013 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-383/10) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Articles 56 TFEU and 63 TFEU - Articles 36 and 40 of the EEA Agreement - Tax legislation - Tax exemption reserved to interest payments by resident banks and excluding interest payments by banks established abroad)
   2013/C 225/02
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: R. Lyal and F. Dintilhac, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: J.-C. Halleux and M. Jacobs, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Breach of Articles 56 and 63 TFEU — Breach of Articles 36 and 40 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area — Restriction on freedom to provide services and free movement of capital — National provisions establishing a tax exemption applicable only to interest paid by Belgian banks, excluding that paid by non–resident banks — Discriminatory taxation
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court declares that:
   
               1.
            
            
               By introducing and maintaining a system of discriminatory taxation of interest payments by non-resident banks, resulting from the application of a tax exemption reserved only to interest payments by resident banks, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 56 TFEU and Article 36 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area of 2 May 1992;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The Kingdom of Belgium is ordered to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 274, 9.10.2010.