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Article 64 Directive 2006/112/EC

Supply of goods or services

Title VI · Chargeable event and chargeability of VAT › Chapter 2 · Supply of goods or services

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Text of Article 64

1.Where it gives rise to successive statements of account or successive payments, the supply of goods, other than that consisting in the hire of goods for a certain period or the sale of goods on deferred terms, as referred to in point (b) of Article 14(2), or the supply of services shall be regarded as being completed on expiry of the periods to which such statements of account or payments relate.

2.Continuous supplies of goods over a period of more than one calendar month which are dispatched or transported to a Member State other than that in which the dispatch or transport of those goods begins and which are supplied VAT-exempt or which are transferred VAT-exempt to another Member State by a taxable person for the purposes of his business, in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 138, shall be regarded as being completed on expiry of each calendar month until such time as the supply comes to an end.

Supplies of services for which VAT is payable by the customer pursuant to Article 196, which are supplied continuously over a period of more than one year and which do not give rise to statements of account or payments during that period, shall be regarded as being completed on expiry of each calendar year until such time as the supply of services comes to an end.

Member States may provide that, in certain cases other than those referred to in the first and second subparagraphs, the continuous supply of goods or services over a period of time is to be regarded as being completed at least at intervals of one year.

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Case law on Article 64: 15 cases

Judgments, orders and Advocate General opinions of the Court of Justice and the General Court that cite Article 64 of Directive 2006/112/EC, most recent first.

  1. C-696/22 C (Court-appointed administrators and liquidators) Judgment · 13 June 2024 · Romania · cites Article 64(1), (2)
  2. C-9/20 Grundstücksgemeinschaft Kollaustraße 136 Judgment · 10 February 2022 · Germany
  3. C-324/20 X-Beteiligungsgesellschaft (VAT – Successive payments) Judgment · 28 October 2021 · Germany · cites Article 64(1)
  4. C-80/20 Wilo Salmson France Judgment · 21 October 2021 · Romania
  5. C-258/19 EUROVIA Judgment · 30 April 2020 · Hungary · cites Article 64(1)
  6. C-414/17 AREX CZ Judgment · 19 December 2018 · Czechia
  7. C-548/17 baumgarten sports & more Judgment · 29 November 2018 · Germany · cites Article 64(1)
  8. C-295/17 Meo - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia Judgment · 22 November 2018 · Portugal · cites Article 64(1)
  9. C-422/17 Skarpa Travel Opinion · 5 September 2018 · Poland
  10. C-164/16 Mercedes-Benz Financial Services UK Judgment · 4 October 2017 · United Kingdom · cites Article 64(1)
  11. C-516/14 Barlis 06 - Investimentos Imobiliários e Turísticos Judgment · 15 September 2016 · Portugal · cites Article 64(1)
  12. C-463/14 Asparuhovo Lake Investment Company Judgment · 3 September 2015 · Bulgaria · cites Article 64(1)
  13. C-18/13 Maks Pen Judgment · 13 February 2014 · Bulgaria
  14. C-169/12 TNT Express Worldwide (Poland) Judgment · 16 May 2013 · Poland
  15. C-118/11 Eon Aset Menidjmunt Judgment · 16 February 2012 · Bulgaria · cites Article 64(1)