Global Trade and Customs Journal publishes article by Pablo Muñiz
- 05/07/2017
- News
In June 2017, Global Trade and Customs Journal published an article by Van Bael & Bellis partner Pablo Muñiz entitled “Challenging the validity of EU customs measures before the Court of Justice of the EU: please use the back door”.
The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union introduced a new admissibility test to determine when economic operators are able to challenge the validity of EU acts of general application, such as EU customs-related measures, “directly” before the Court of Justice of the EU (“action for annulment”). This article examines the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU concerning the application of the new admissibility test to EU customs-related measures between 2011 and the first half of 2017. The author takes the view that the new test has unfortunately been interpreted in an overly restrictive manner and examines how economic operators will need to proceed in order to challenge the validity of EU customs measures.
The article is available in Global Trade and Customs Journal, Volume 12 (2017)/Issue 6.
