Taxes: The Court of Justice of the European Union dismisses the appeals of the European Commission and confirms the judgments of the General Court of the European Union concerning the Polish tax in the retail sector and the Hungarian tax on advertising (Commission / Poland ; Commission / Hungary)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 16 March 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union, sitting as a Grand Chamber, delivered its judgments in the cases C-562/19 (European Commission v. Republic of Poland)and C-596/19 (European Commission v Hungary). The Court dismissed the two appeals lodged by the Commission and confirmed the two judgments delivered by the Court of First Instance concerning the Polish tax in the retail sector and the Hungarian tax on advertising. The Court thus essentially follows the conclusions presented by Advocate General Juliane Kokott in those two cases C-562/19 (European Commission v Republic of Poland) and C-596/19 (European Commission v Hungary). The