CELEX: 62009CA0339
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-339/09: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 16 December 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Nejvyšší správní soud — Czech Republic) — Skoma-Lux sro v Celní ředitelství Olomouc (Common Customs Tariff — Tariff classification — Combined Nomenclature — Headings 2204 and 2206 — Beverage fermented on the basis of fresh grapes — Alcohol content of 15,8 % to 16,1 % by volume — Addition of corn alcohol and beet sugar during the course of production)

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 55/12
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 16 December 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Nejvyšší správní soud — Czech Republic) — Skoma-Lux sro v Celní ředitelství Olomouc
   (Case C-339/09) (1)
   
   (Common Customs Tariff - Tariff classification - Combined Nomenclature - Headings 2204 and 2206 - Beverage fermented on the basis of fresh grapes - Alcohol content of 15,8 % to 16,1 % by volume - Addition of corn alcohol and beet sugar during the course of production)
   2011/C 55/19
   Language of the case: Czech
   
      Referring court
   
   Nejvyšší správní soud
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Skoma-Lux sro
   
      Defendant: Celní ředitelství Olomouc
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Nejvyšší správní soud — Interpretation of 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 (OJ 1987 L 256, p. 1), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1789/2003 of 11 September 2003 (OJ 2003 L 281, p. 1) — Red dessert wine Kagor — Classification under heading 2204 or heading 2206 of the combined nomenclature
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   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 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1719/2005 of 27 October 2005, must be interpreted as meaning that a beverage fermented on the basis of fresh grapes, sold in 0.75 litre bottles, with an alcohol content of 15,8 % to 16,1 % by volume, to which beet sugar and corn alcohol have been added during the course of its production, must be classified under heading 2206 of the Combined Nomenclature in Annex I to that regulation.
   
      (1)  OJ C 282, 21.11.2009.