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2018-05 Reports of Cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance 1 (2018)

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Reports   of  Cases


                            OPINION   OF ADVOCATE GENERAL
                                          BOBEK
                                  delivered on 13 July 2017'

                                       Case C-574/15

                                     Mauro  Scialdone

    (Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale di Varese (District Court, Varese, Italy))


 (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Value added tax (VAT) - Directive 2006/112 - Article 4(3)
TEU  - Principle of sincere cooperation - Article 325 TFEU - Protection of the financial interests of
  the Union - Convention on the protection of the European Communities' financial interests (PIF
Convention) - National law providing for criminal penalties relating to failure to pay withholding tax
  and VAT  by the legal deadline - Higher financial threshold applicable to VAT related offences -
  National  law providing for the extinction of criminal liability if VAT is paid - Member States'
  obligation to establish effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties - Charter of Fundamental
       Rights of the European Union - Article 49(1) of the Charter - Principle of legality -
               Retroactive application of the more lenient penalty - Legal certainty)




                                      Table of contents


I. Introduction     ....................................................................

II. Legal framework    .................................................................

   A. EU law      ......................................................................

     1. The Charter ....    ...........................................................

     2. Article 325 TFEU...    ........................................................

     3. The PIF Convention           .........................................................

     4. The VAT Directive    ..........................................................

     5. Regulation No 2988/95   .......................................................

   B. Italian law     ....................................................................

III. Facts, procedure and questions referred  ...............................................


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1  Original language: English.


ECLI:EU:C:2017:5531


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