CELEX: 62011CA0361
Language: en
Date: 2013-01-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-361/11: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 January 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Haarlem — Netherlands) — Hewlett-Packard Europe BV v Inspecteur van de Belastingdienst/Douane West, kantoor Hoofddorp (Common Customs Tariff — Combined Nomenclature — Tariff classification — Multifunctional printers combining a laser printing module and a scanning module, with a copying function — CN code 84433191 — Validity of Regulation (EC) No 1031/2008)

2.3.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 63/5
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 January 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Haarlem — Netherlands) — Hewlett-Packard Europe BV v Inspecteur van de Belastingdienst/Douane West, kantoor Hoofddorp
   (Case C-361/11) (1)
   
   (Common Customs Tariff - Combined Nomenclature - Tariff classification - Multifunctional printers combining a laser printing module and a scanning module, with a copying function - CN code 8443 31 91 - Validity of Regulation (EC) No 1031/2008)
   2013/C 63/06
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Rechtbank Haarlem
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Europe BV
   
      Defendant: Inspecteur van de Belastingdienst/Douane West, kantoor Hoofddorp
   
      Re:
   
   Request for a preliminary ruling — Rechtbank Haarlem — Common Customs Tariff — Tariff classification of multifunctional printers consisting of the assembled combination of three units (printer, scanner and photocopier) — Classification, prior to 1 January 2007, under subheading 8471 60 20 of the Combined Nomenclature, with resulting exemption from customs duties, by reason of application of the Court’s judgment in Joined Cases C-362/07 and C-363/07 Kip Europe and Others [2008] ECR I-9489 — Validity of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1031/2008 of 19 September 2008 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ 2008 L 291, p. 1)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Consideration of the question raised has disclosed no factor of such a kind as to affect the validity of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1031/2008 of 19 September 2008 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, in so far as it classifies under CN code 8443 31 91 of the Combined Nomenclature, contained in Annex I to Regulation No 2568/87, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 254/2000 of 31 January 2000, multifunctional printers, such as those at issue in the main proceedings, combining a laser printing module and a scanning module, with a copying function, released for free circulation in April 2009.
   
      (1)  OJ C 282, 24.9.2011.