22.6.2013
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 178/4
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Commissione Tributaria Regionale del Veneto — Sede di Mestre-Venezia (Italy) lodged on 27 March 2013 — SICES and Others v Agenzia Dogane Ufficio delle Dogane di Venezia
(Case C-155/13)
2013/C 178/06
Language of the case: Italian
Referring court
Commissione Tributaria Regionale del Veneto — Sede di Mestre-Venezia
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicants: Società Italiana Commercio e Servizi srl, in liquidation (SICES) and Others
Defendant: Agenzia Dogane Ufficio delle Dogane di Venezia
Question referred
On a proper construction of Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 341/2007, (1) is there an unlawful transfer of licences for the importation at a preferential rate of duty of garlic of Chinese origin under the GATT quota, where the holder of those licences, following payment of the duty due, places the garlic in question on the market by means of a transfer to another trader who holds import licences and from whom it had — prior to the importation — acquired the garlic concerned?
(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 341/2007 of 29 March 2007 opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas and introducing a system of import licences and certificates of origin for garlic and certain other agricultural products imported from third countries (OJ 2007 L 90, p. 12).
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