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(Tax on motor vehicles - Directive 1999/62/EC - Charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures - Article 6(2)(b) - Commission decision approving an exemption - No direct effect)
(2009/C 6/14)
Language of the case: French
Applicant: Foselev Sud-Ouest SARL
Defendant: Administration des douanes et droits indirects
Reference for a preliminary ruling — Tribunal d'Instance de Bordeaux (France) — Interpretation of Commission Decision 2005/449/EC, concerning a request for exemption from the vehicle tax rules submitted by France pursuant to Article 6(2)(b) of Directive 1999/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 1999 on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures (OJ 2005 L 158, p. 23) — Whether that decision has direct effect or, as an authorisation decision, requires a measure transposing it into national law?
Commission Decision 2005/449/EC of 20 June 2005 concerning a request for exemption from the vehicle tax rules submitted by France pursuant to Article 6(2)(b) of Directive 1999/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures cannot be relied on by an individual against the French Republic, to which that decision was addressed, in order to obtain the benefit of the exemption approved by that decision upon its notification or publication.
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(<span class="super">1</span>) OJ C 79, 29.3.2008.