CELEX: 62017CA0503
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-503/17: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 17 October 2018 — European Commission v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 95/60/EC — Fiscal marking of gas oils and kerosene — Refuelling of private pleasure craft)

17.12.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 455/15
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 17 October 2018 — European Commission v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
      (Case C-503/17) (1)
      
      ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 95/60/EC - Fiscal marking of gas oils and kerosene - Refuelling of private pleasure craft))
      (2018/C 455/22)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: European Commission (represented by: F. Tomat and J. Tomkin, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: S. Brandon, acting as Agent, and by M. Gray, Barrister)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Declares that by allowing the use of marked fuel for the purposes of propelling private pleasure craft, even where that fuel is not subject to any exemption from or reduction in excise duty, the United Kingdom has failed to fulfil its obligations under Council Directive 95/60/EC of 27 November 1995 on fiscal marking of gas oils and kerosene;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 347, 16.10.2017.