CELEX: C2005/281/07
Language: en
Date: 2005-11-12 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 15 September 2005 in Case C-140/04: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep te Antwerpen: United Antwerp Maritime Agencies NV v Belgische Staat, and Seaport Terminals NV v Belgische Staat, United Antwerp Maritime Agencies NV (Customs union — Creation of a customs debt on importation — Goods in temporary storage — Unlawful removal of the goods from customs supervision — Person liable for the debt)

12.11.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 281/3
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (First Chamber)
   of 15 September 2005
   in Case C-140/04: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep te Antwerpen: United Antwerp Maritime Agencies NV v Belgische Staat, and Seaport Terminals NV v Belgische Staat, United Antwerp Maritime Agencies NV (1)
   
   (Customs union - Creation of a customs debt on importation - Goods in temporary storage - Unlawful removal of the goods from customs supervision - Person liable for the debt)
   (2005/C 281/07)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   In Case C-140/04: reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC from the Hof van beroep te Antwerpen (Belgium), made by decision of 11 March 2004, received at the Court on 16 March 2004, in the proceedings between United Antwerp Maritime Agencies NV v Belgische Staat, and Seaport Terminals NV and Belgische Staat, United Antwerp Maritime Agencies NV — the Court (First Chamber) composed of P. Jann, President of the Chamber, K. Lenaerts, J.N. Cunha Rodrigues (Rapporteur), E. Juhász and M. Ilešič, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General, M. Ferreira, Principal administrator, for the, Registrar, gave a judgment on 15 September 2005, the operative part of which is as follows:
   The fourth indent of Article 203(3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code must be interpreted as meaning that ‘the person required to fulfil the obligations arising from temporary storage of the goods’ is the person who holds the goods after they have been unloaded in order to move or store them.
   
      (1)  OJ C 106 of 30.04.2004.