CELEX: C2004/118/57
Language: en
Date: 2004-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court of Justice (Third Chamber) of 1 April 2004 in Case C-216/03 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht für Zivilrechtssachen Wien): DLD Trading Company Import-Export, spol. s.r.o. v Republic of Austria (Preliminary ruling — Inadmissibility)

30.4.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 118/31
            
         
      ORDER OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE
   
   (Third Chamber)
   of 1 April 2004
   in Case C-216/03 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht für Zivilrechtssachen Wien): DLD Trading Company Import-Export, spol. s.r.o. v Republic of Austria (1)
   
   (Preliminary ruling - Inadmissibility)
   (2004/C 118/57)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case C-216/03: reference to the Court under Article 234 EC from the Landesgericht für Zivilrechtssachen Wien (Austria) for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between DLD Trading Company Import-Export, spol. s.r.o. and Republic of Austria, on, first, the validity of Council Regulation (EC) No 3316/94 of 22 December 1994 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 355/94 by introducing a temporary derogation applicable to Austria with regard to exemptions from customs duties (OJ 1994 L 350, p. 12), and of Council Regulation (EC) No 2744/98 of 14 December 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 355/94 and extending the temporary derogation applicable to Germany and Austria (OJ 1994 L 345, p. 9), in the light of the ‘provisions of Community law relating to exemptions from customs duties, in particular Council Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 [of 28 March 1983 setting up a Community system of exemptions from customs duty (OJ 1983 L 105, p. 1)] and the principle of the Customs union’, and of the principles of legal certainty and the protection of legitimate expectations, and, second, the validity of Council Directive 69/169/EEC of 28 May 1969 on the harmonisation of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action relating to exemption from turnover tax and excise duty on imports in international travel (OJ 1969 L 133, p. 6) and of ‘the national provisions transposing it’ in view of ‘the purposes of harmonising turnover tax and excise duty within the Member States, liberalising and facilitating travel to and from non-member countries and aligning exemptions from tax and from customs duty in the context of travel’ – the Court (Third Chamber), composed of A. Rosas, President of the Chamber, R. Schintgen (Rapporteur) and N. Colneric, Judges; J. Kokott, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, made an order on 1 April 2004, the operative part of which is as follows:
   The reference for a preliminary ruling made by the Landesgericht für Zivilrechtssachen Wien by order of 7 April 2003 is inadmissible.
   
      (1)  OJ C 251 of 18. 10. 2003.