CELEX: 62021CN0805
Language: en
Date: 2021-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Case C-805/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Spetsializiran nakazatelen sad (Bulgaria) lodged on 20 December 2021 — Criminal proceedings against ZhU and RD

28.3.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 138/14
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Spetsializiran nakazatelen sad (Bulgaria) lodged on 20 December 2021 — Criminal proceedings against ZhU and RD
      (Case C-805/21)
      (2022/C 138/14)
      Language of the case: Bulgarian
      
         Referring court
      
      Spetsializiran nakazatelen sad
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      ZhU and RD
      
         Question referred
      
      Is it compatible with Article 2(3) of Directive 2014/42 (1) or, in the alternative, with the third indent of Article 1 of Framework Decision 2005/212 to interpret national law as meaning that a motor vehicle used to store large quantities of excise goods (cigarettes) without strip stamps does not constitute an instrumentality of crime?
      
         (1)  Directive 2014/42/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the freezing and confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds of crime in the European Union (OJ 2014 L 127, p. 39).