EU Cases Case name Case 7/68 Commission v Italy (Art Treasure) Case 2/90 Commission v Belgium Case 7/78 R v Thompson Case 159/94 Commission v France Case 2/68 Commission v Italy (Statistical Levy) [1969] ECR 193 Key points Products which can be valued in money and which may be the object of commercial transactions Hazardous waste What is it good for? Gold and silver coins - collectors pieces not used as legal tender Electricity and gas Italy argue: a very small charge, no distinction between export/import but imposed whenever crossed frontier, actually consideration for service rendered advantages obtained from survey Court found (9) "Any pecuniary charge, however small and whatever its designation and mode of application, which is imposed unilaterally on domestic or foreign goods by reason of the fact that they cross a frontier and which is a customs duty in the strict sense, constitutes a charge of having equivalent effect, been if it is not imposed for the benefit of the state, is not discriminator or protective in effect and if the product on which the charge is imposed is not in competition with any
Case 373/62 Commission v Luxembourg Case 18/87 Commission v Germans Case 83/78 Pigs Marketing Board v Redmond Case 266 and 267/87 domestic product" "The applications are brought for the purpose of obtaining a declaration of illegality in respect of the increase of the special import duty on gingerbread imposed after the treaty entered into force, and of the extension of that duty to other similar products considered a s a charge of having equivalent effect" "A charge having equal lent effect within the meaning of article. And 12 of the EEC treaty, whatever it is called and whatever its mode of application, may be regarded as a duty imposed unilaterally whether at the time of important or subsequent, and which if imposed specifically upon a product imported from a member state to the exclusions of a similar domestic product, has, by altering its price, the same effects upon the free movement of products as a customs duty"
R v Royal Pharmaceutical Society of GB Van Gend en Loos Constanzo Marshall v Southampton Area Health Authority Von Colton Case Case 302/00 Commission v France (Tobacco) Case 120/78 Rewe Zentrale.v Case 249/82 Commission v Ireland (Buy Irish) Case 8/74 Procureur du Rio v Dassonville Case 267 and 268/91 Keek and Mithouard Case 90/86 Zoni Case 191/95 Commission v Germany Case 87/89 sonito Ireland held responsible for a campaign run by the Irish Goods Council promoting Irish goods to the detriment of imports from MS contrary to free movement of goods Issue of reasoned opinion is merely a pre-litigation stage of a procedure, this purpose of [pre- litigationB procedure is to enable the MS to comply with the Treaty of is own accord or to justify its position, if the attempt at settlement is unsuccessful the function of the reasoned option to to define the subject- matter of the dispute Individuals cannot require the commission to