The Court of Justice has given a judgment in the case Dixons Retail.
Articles 2(1), 5(1) and 11A(1)(a) of Sixth Council Directive 77/388/EEC and Articles 2(1)(a), 14(1) and 73 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC must be interpreted as meaning that, in circumstances such as those at issue in the main proceedings, the physical transfer of goods to a purchaser who fraudulently uses a bank card as a means of payment constitutes a ‘supply of goods' within the meaning of Articles 2(1) and 5(1) of Directive 77/388 and Articles 2(1)(a) and 14(1) of Directive 2006/112 and that, in the context of such a transfer, the payment made by a third party, under an agreement concluded between it and the supplier of those goods by which the third party has undertaken to pay the supplier for the goods sold by the latter to purchasers using such a card as a means of payment, constitutes ‘consideration' within the meaning of Article 11A(1)(a) of Directive 77/388 and Article 73 of Directive 2006/112.
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