Gegenstand
Renvoi préjudiciel – Union douanière – Classement tarifaire – Tarif douanier commun – Nomenclature combinée – Positions 8541 et 8543 – Modules servant à la transmission et à la réception de données à courte distance – Sous-positions 8543 89 95 et 8543 90 80 – Notion de parties de machines et d’appareils électriques
Zusammenfassung und Tenor
On those grounds, the Court (Eighth Chamber) hereby rules: 1. The Combined Nomenclature in Annex 1 to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1832/2002 of 1 August 2002 must be interpreted as meaning that modules, each consisting of the interconnection of a light emitting diode, a photo-diode and a number of other semiconductor devices, and which may be used as infrared transmitters/receivers where their electricity supply derives from the devices in which they are incorporated, come under CN heading 8543. 2. The Combined Nomenclature in Annex 1 to Regulation No 2658/87, as amended by Regulation No 1832/2002 must be interpreted as meaning that modules such as those at issue in the main proceedings incorporated in devices for the mechanical or electrical functioning of which they are not necessary, do not constitute parts for the purposes of subheading 8543 90 80 of that nomenclature, but do come under subheading 8543 89 95 of that nomenclature, relating to other electrical machines and apparatus having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in Chapter 85 of that nomenclature. [Signatures] ( *1 ) Language of the case: German.