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((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Tax provisions - Harmonisation of laws - Directives 95/59/EC and 2011/64/EU - Structure and rates of excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco - Establishment of an excise duty - Principle establishing one rate of excise duty for all cigarettes - Possibility for the Member States of establishing a minimum amount of excise duty - Cigarettes in the lowest price category - National legislation - Specific category of cigarettes - Excise duty set at 115 %))
(2014/C 439/12)
Language of the case: Italian
Appellants: Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze, Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato (AAMS)
Respondent: Yesmoke Tobacco SpA
Articles 7(2) and 8(6) of Council Directive 2011/64/EU of 21 June 2011 on the structure and rates of excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco must be interpreted as precluding a provision of national law, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which, rather than establishing an identical minimum excise duty that is applicable to all cigarettes, establishes a minimum excise duty that is applicable only to cigarettes with a retail selling price lower than that of cigarettes in the most popular price category.
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OJ C 313, 26.10.2013.