CELEX: C2007/211/10
Language: en
Date: 2007-09-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-142/06: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 18 July 2007 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Østre Landsret, Denmark) — Olicom A/S v Skatteministeriet (Common Customs Tariff — Tariff headings — Classification in the combined nomenclature — Automatic data processing machines — Combined network/modem cards — Definition of specific function )

8.9.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 211/6
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 18 July 2007 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Østre Landsret, Denmark) — Olicom A/S v Skatteministeriet
   (Case C-142/06) (1)
   
   (Common Customs Tariff - Tariff headings - Classification in the combined nomenclature - Automatic data processing machines - Combined network/modem cards - Definition of ‘specific function’)
   (2007/C 211/10)
   Language of the case: Danish
   Referring court
   Østre Landsret
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Olicom A/S
   
      Defendant: Skatteministeriet
   Re:
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Østre Landsret — Interpretation of 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 No 3009/95 of 22 December 1995 (OJ L 1995 L 319, p. 1) — Headings 8471 (automatic data-processing machines) and 8517 (telecommunication apparatus) — Network cards with double function, access to local area network and the Internet — Specific function
   Operative part of the judgment
   Combined cards designed to be inserted into portable computers must, after 1 January 1996, be classified as data-processing machines under heading 8471 of the Combined Nomenclature of the Common Customs Tariff, contained in 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, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 3009/95 of 22 December 1995.
   
      (1)  OJ C 143, 17.6.2006.