Asunto C-83/05: Sentencia del Tribunal de Justicia (Sala Sexta) de 13 de julio de 2006 (petición de decisión prejudicial planteada por el Amtsgericht Freiburg — Alemania) — Bernd Voigt (Realización del mercado interior — Aproximación de las legislaciones — Vehículos de motor — Procedimiento de homologación comunitaria — Directiva 70/156/CEE — Alcance — Clasificación según las características técnicas de los tipos de vehículos — Influencia en la clasificación de vehículos que efectúa una normativa nacional que regula las condiciones de circulación por carretera)

• Jurisdiction: European Union
• Published date: 21 September 2006
• Celex Number: C2006/224/19

16.9.2006 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 224/11

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Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 July 2006 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Freiburg — Germany) — Bernd Voigt

(Case C-83/05) (1)

(Completion of the internal market - Approximation of laws - Motor vehicles - Community type-approval procedure - Directive 70/156/EEC - Scope - Classification according to the technical characteristics of vehicle types - Effect on vehicle classification of a national regulation governing road traffic)

(2006/C 224/19)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Amtsgericht Freiburg

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Bernd Voigt

Re:

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Amtsgericht Freiburg — Interpretation of Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers (OJ, English Special Edition 1970 (I), p. 96), as amended by Council Directive 92/53/EEC of 18 June 1992 (OJ 1992 L 225 p. 1) — Registration by a Member State of a category M1 vehicle (passenger car) covered by Community type-approval — Whether the national authorities may penalise the driver of such a vehicle for road traffic offences which relate to goods vehicles — Motorway speed limits applicable solely to goods vehicles

Operative part of the judgment

Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, as amended by Council Directive 92/53/EEC of 18 June 1992, is to be interpreted as meaning that it does not preclude national rules which provide that a vehicle such as the one in question in the main proceedings is not subject to the national speed limits for passenger cars, even where that vehicle has been registered as a passenger car on the basis of a Community...