CELEX: 62010CB0267
Language: en
Date: 2011-05-23 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-267/10 and C-268/10: Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 23 May 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de première instance de Namur (Belgium)) — André Rossius (C-267/10), Marc Collard (C-268/10) v Etat Belge — SPF Finances (Article 6(1) TEU — Article 35 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Possession and sale of manufactured smoking tobacco — National legislation authorising the levying of excise duty on tobacco products — Court manifestly incompetent)

6.8.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 232/10
            
         Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 23 May 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de première instance de Namur (Belgium)) — André Rossius (C-267/10), Marc Collard (C-268/10) v Etat Belge — SPF Finances
   (Joined Cases C-267/10 and C-268/10) (1)
   
   (Article 6(1) TEU - Article 35 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Possession and sale of manufactured smoking tobacco - National legislation authorising the levying of excise duty on tobacco products - Court manifestly incompetent)
   2011/C 232/17
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal de première instance de Namur
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: André Rossius (C-267/10), Marc Collard (C-268/10)
   
      Defendant: Etat Belge — SPF Finances
   
      In the presence of: Etat Belge — Service public federal Défense
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Tribunal de première instance de Namur — Interpretation of the first paragraph of Article 6(1) TEU and of Article 35 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Whether national legislation permitting the production, import, promotion and sale of manufactured smoking tobacco, recognised to be seriously harmful, is compatible with the object of protecting human health — Whether the provisions of national law authorising the levying of excise duty on tobacco products are valid in the light of the [EU] rules cited
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   The Court of Justice of the European Union is manifestly incompetent to reply to the questions asked by the Tribunal de première instance de Namur (Belgium) by decisions of 24 March 2010.
   
      (1)  OJ C 221, 14.08.2010.