Self-Control Exercises on the Concept of Goods

True-False Questions
1. The term "good" is not defined in the EU Treaties and therefore the term has been defined by the CJEU. How has the CJEU defined the term "good"? If in trouble, You may look at the completion instructions!


It is necessary for a good to have an intrinsic economic value.

True False     


2. In case C-67/97, Criminal proceedings against Ditlev Bluhme, ECR 1998 p. I-08033, the ECJ said that animals are goods.

True False     


3. In case C-265/95, Commission vs. French Republic, ECR 1997 p. I-06959, the ECJ said that agricultural products, included strawberries, are goods.

True False     


4. In case C-379/98, Preussen Elektra AG vs. Schleswag AG, ECR 2001 p. I-2099, the ECJ considers that electricity is good.

True False     


5. In case 7/78, Regina vs. Ernest George Thompson et al, ECR 1978 p. 2247, the ECJ said that coins that are no longer legal tender, are goods.

True False     


6. In case C‑221/06, Stadtgemeinde Frohnleiten, Gemeindebetriebe Frohnleiten GmbH. vs. Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft, ECR 2007 p. I-9643, the ECJ said that the long-term depositing of waste at waste disposal sites in a Member State is good.

True False     


7. In case C-275/92, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise vs. Gerhart Schindler and Jörg Schindler, ECR 1994 p. I-1039, the ECJ did not consider lottery tickets goods.

True False     
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In case 7/68, Commission vs. Italy, ECR 1968 p. 00423 (English edn.) (Italian Art Treasures judgment), the CJEU defined goods as: "Products which can be valued in and which are capable, as such, of forming the subject of ."

In case C‑2/90 Commission vs. Belgium, ECR 1992 p. I‑4431 (the Walloon waste judgment), the ECJ said: "It must therefore be concluded that waste, whether recyclable or not, is to be regarded as " " the movement of which, in accordance with Article 30 of the Treaty, must in principle not be prevented." In the same judgment the CJEU explained that waste for disposal, even if it has no intrinsic commercial value, may none the less give rise to commercial in relation to the disposal or deposit thereof. Internal taxation imposed on that waste is such as to render more difficult or more burdensome those commercial transactions for an operator who seeks to dispose of that waste and, therefore, is liable to constitute a disguised restriction on the free of that waste.

  

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