CELEX: 62013CA0306
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-306/13: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 18 December 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Brussel — Belgium) — LVP NV v Belgische Staat (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Common organisation of the markets — Bananas — System of importation — Applicable tariff rates)

23.2.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 65/6
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 18 December 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Brussel — Belgium) — LVP NV v Belgische Staat
   (Case C-306/13) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Common organisation of the markets - Bananas - System of importation - Applicable tariff rates))
   (2015/C 065/08)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Brussel
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: LVP NV
   
      Defendant: Belgische Staat
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1994, as set out in Annex 1 A of the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation (WTO), signed in Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 and approved by Council Decision 94/800/EC of 22 December 1994 concerning the conclusion on behalf of the European Community, as regards matters within its competence, of the agreements reached in the Uruguay Round multilateral negotiations (1986-1994), are not such as to create rights which individuals might rely on directly before a national court in order to oppose the application of the customs tariff rate of EUR 176 per tonne, laid down in Article 1(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1964/2005 of 29 November 2005 on the tariff rates for bananas.
   
      (1)  OJ C 252, 31.8.2013.