Judgment_paragraph 29 · Euro Tyre BV – Sucursal em Portugal v Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira (C-21/16)

29Neither Article 138(1) of the VAT Directive nor the Court’s case-law, however, mentions — as one of the substantive conditions, listed exhaustively, for an intra-Community supply — the obligation for the purchaser to have a VAT identification number (see, to that effect, judgment of 6 September 2012, Mecsek-Gabona, C‑273/11, EU:C:2012:547, paragraph 59) nor, a fortiori, the obligation for the purchaser to be registered for the purpose of carrying out intra-Community transactions and to be registered in the VIES system.