CELEX: 62013CA0541
Language: en
Date: 2014-10-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-541/13: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 9 October 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Hamburg — Germany) — Douane Advies Bureau Rietveld v Hauptzollamt Hannover (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Customs union and common customs tariff — Tariff classification — Heading 3822 — Concept of ‘diagnostic or laboratory reagents’  — Indicators of exposure to a predetermined target temperature)

8.12.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 439/12
            
         Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 9 October 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Hamburg — Germany) — Douane Advies Bureau Rietveld v Hauptzollamt Hannover
   (Case C-541/13) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Customs union and common customs tariff - Tariff classification - Heading 3822 - Concept of ‘diagnostic or laboratory reagents’ - Indicators of exposure to a predetermined target temperature))
   (2014/C 439/17)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Finanzgericht Hamburg
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Douane Advies Bureau Rietveld
   
      Defendant: Hauptzollamt Hannover
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Heading 3822 of the Combined Nomenclature in Annex 1 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 (EU) No 861/2010 of 5 October 2010, must be interpreted as meaning that temperature indicators, such as the products marketed under the names ‘WarmMark’ and ‘ColdMark’, which, by the effect of a change in colour caused by the variation in volume of the liquids that they contain, indicate, irreversibly, whether a temperature higher or lower than a specified threshold has been reached, are not covered by that heading.
   
      (1)  OJ C 9, 11.1.2014.