Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment

C‑40/14Direction générale des douanes et droits indirects and Others v Utopia SARL

Decided: 2014-11-20
ECLI: ECLI:EU:C:2014:2389
CELEX: 62014CJ0040
Finality: Final, the decision cannot be appealed

The court's own keywords

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Customs union and Common Customs Tariff — Importation free of customs duties — Animals specially prepared for laboratory use — Public establishment or an authorised private establishment — Importer whose customers are such establishments — Packing materials or packing containers — Cages used for transportation of animals.

Interprets

EUR-Lex The Court

Read from EU:s publikationsbyrå, Cellar (EUR-Lex och CURIA) on 2026-08-22.

The row repeats what the source states. It is not a summary, not a conclusion about any single case and not legal advice.

Verifiable trust signals

Six fixed blocks, one source per line
No sentence written by a language model
Engine version and read date on every answer
No customer data, no documents, no advice
Model card and audit published under the EU AI Act

Model card Audit