Judgment_paragraph 2 · Republic of Austria v Federal Republic of Germany (C-591/17)

2The first subparagraph of Article 1 of Directive 1999/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 1999 on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures (OJ 1999 L 187, p. 42), as amended by Directive 2011/76/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011 (OJ 2011 L 269, p. 1) (‘the Eurovignette Directive’), provides that that directive applies to vehicle taxes, tolls and user charges imposed on vehicles as defined in Article 2 thereof. Article 2(d) of that directive defines a ‘vehicle’ for the purposes of the Eurovignette Directive as ‘a motor vehicle or articulated vehicle combination intended or used for the carriage by road of goods and having a maximum permissible laden weight of over 3.5 tonnes’.

Republic of Austria v Federal Republic of Germany (C-591/17)

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