Ze Fu Fleischhandel GmbH and Vion Trading GmbH v Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Jonas (C-201/10, C-202/10)

Judgment of 5 May 2011

law://eu/cjeu/2010/c-201-10/para_25@2026-11-13

25However, since the European Union legislature expressly provided that the Member States may apply limitation periods which are longer than that minimum period of four years, it is clear that it did not intend to standardise the periods applicable in the area and that, consequently, the entry into force of Regulation No 2988/95 cannot have had the effect of compelling the Member States to reduce to four years the limitation periods which, in the absence of rules of European Union law previously in the area, they applied in the past.

Ze Fu Fleischhandel GmbH and Vion Trading GmbH v Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Jonas (C-201/10, C-202/10)

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