Judgment_paragraph 42 · Asociación Multisectorial de Empresas de la Electrónica, las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación, de las Telecomunicaciones y de los contenidos Digitales (AMETIC) v Administración General del Estado and Others (C-263/21)

42Furthermore, where the system for collecting compensation for private copying provides that the final user may be exempted from it, as soon as the reproduction equipment, devices and media are purchased, by means of an exemption certificate showing, in essence, that he, she or it is purchasing them for purposes clearly unrelated to the making of copies for private use, the seller who has paid the levy to his, her or its supplier but is prohibited, because of the presentation of the certificate, from passing on that levy to his, her or its customer should be able to apply to the organisation entrusted with the management of the levy for reimbursement thereof (see, to that effect, judgment of 5 March 2015, Copydan Båndkopi, C‑463/12, EU:C:2015:144, paragraph 55).