CELEX: 62009CA0402
Language: en
Date: 2011-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-402/09: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 7 April 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunalul Sibiu — Romania) — Ioan Tatu v Statul român prin Ministerul Finanțelor și Economiei, Direcția Generală a Finanțelor Publice Sibiu, Administrația Finanțelor Publice Sibiu, Administrația Fondului pentru Mediu, Ministerul Mediului (Internal taxation — Article 110 TFEU — Pollution tax charged on first registration of motor vehicles — Neutrality of tax between imported second-hand motor vehicles and similar vehicles already on the domestic market)

28.5.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 160/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 7 April 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunalul Sibiu — Romania) — Ioan Tatu v Statul român prin Ministerul Finanțelor și Economiei, Direcția Generală a Finanțelor Publice Sibiu, Administrația Finanțelor Publice Sibiu, Administrația Fondului pentru Mediu, Ministerul Mediului
   (Case C-402/09) (1)
   
   (Internal taxation - Article 110 TFEU - Pollution tax charged on first registration of motor vehicles - Neutrality of tax between imported second-hand motor vehicles and similar vehicles already on the domestic market)
   2011/C 160/05
   Language of the case: Romanian
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunalul Sibiu
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Ioan Tatu
   
      Defendants: Statul român prin Ministerul Finanțelor și Economiei, Direcția Generală a Finanțelor Publice Sibiu, Administrația Finanțelor Publice Sibiu, Administrația Fondului pentru Mediu, Ministerul Mediului
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Tribunalul Sibiu — Registration of second-hand vehicles previously registered in other Member States — National legislation subjecting first registration of those vehicles to payment of an environment tax, whereas second-hand vehicles already on the national market are exempted from payment of that tax on a subsequent registration — Compatibility of the national legislation with Article 90 EC — Obstacle to the free movement of goods
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 110 TFEU must be interpreted as precluding a Member State from introducing a pollution tax levied on motor vehicles on their first registration in that Member State if that tax is arranged in such a way that it discourages the placing in circulation in that Member State of second-hand vehicles purchased in other Member States without discouraging the purchase of second-hand vehicles of the same age and condition on the domestic market.
   
      (1)  OJ C 24, 30.1.2010.