Judgment_paragraph 76 · Consiglio Nazionale degli Spedizionieri Doganali v Commission of the European Communities (T-513/93)

76The applicant maintains that since recourse to customs agents is not obligatory, the assertion in the Decision that ‘the tariff also impedes trade between the Italian market and other Community markets because it increases the cost and complexity of customs operations’ is totally without foundation. It also submits that, with the completion of the internal market, there are no longer any customs operations in the context of trade between the Member States and, as is apparent from Council Regulation (EEC) No 3904/92 of 17 December 1992 on measures to adapt the profession of customs agent to the internal market (OJ 1992 L 394, p. 1), customs agents no longer carry out any operations giving rise to payment of remuneration under the professional tariff. Thus, no injury is caused, it is submitted, to trade between the Member States.

Consiglio Nazionale degli Spedizionieri Doganali v Commission of the European Communities (T-513/93)

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