Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 8 July 2010.

European Commission v Italian Republic.

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Union’s own resources - Refusal to make available to the Union own resources corresponding to certain unlawful customs authorisations - Force majeure - Fraudulent conduct by the customs authorities - Liability of the Member States - Lawfulness of the entry of established entitlements in a separate account.

Case C-334/08.


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Link
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2010:187
15/04/2010 Commission v Italy
Application (OJ)
30/08/2008 Commission v Italy
Order
ECLI:EU:C:2008:678
03/12/2008 Commission v Italy
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2010:414
08/07/2010 Commission v Italy
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2010:414
08/07/2010 Commission v Italy
Judgment (OJ)
28/08/2010 Commission v Italy
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

2010 I-06869

Subject-matter

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Infringement of Article 10 EC, Article 8 of Council Decision 2000/597/EC, Euratom of 29 September 2000 on the system of the European Communities’ own resources (OJ 2000 L 253, p. 42), and Articles 2, 6, 10, 11 and 17 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1150/2000 of 22 May 2000 implementing Decision 94/728/EC, Euratom on the system of the Communities’ own resources (OJ 2000 L 130, p. 11) – Refusal to make available to the Communities the own resources corresponding to certain irregular customs authorisations

Systematic classification scheme

1.
2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.06 Financial provisions
    2.06.02 Own resources of the European Union
2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.06 Financial provisions
    2.06.02 Own resources of the European Union
2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.06 Financial provisions
    2.06.02 Own resources of the European Union
2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.06 Financial provisions
    2.06.02 Own resources of the European Union


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 18/07/2008

Date of the Opinion

  • 15/04/2010

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

08/07/2010


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 223 from 30.08.2008, p.39

Judgment: OJ C 234 from 28.08.2010, p.5

Name of the parties

Commission v Italy

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Michel, Valérie: Budget - Ressources propres, Europe 2010 Octobre nº 10 Comm. p.14 (FR)
  2. Fabio, Massimo: Highlights & Insights on European Taxation 2010 nº 11 p.75-76 (EN)
  3. García Heredia, Alejandro: Aduanas - Sentencia del Tribunal de Justicia (Sala Segunda) de 8 de julio de 2010, Comisión / Italia, Asunto C-334/08, Revista española de Derecho Financiero 2010 nº 148 p.1240-1243 (ES)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Information not available

Subject-matter

  • Financial provisions
  • - Own resources

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Action for a declaration of failure to fulfil obligations : application granted
  • Action for a declaration of failure to fulfil obligations : case not proceeding to judgment

Formation of the Court

deuxième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Cunha Rodrigues

Advocate General

Kokott

Language(s) of the Case

  • Italian

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • German