Opinion of Advocate General Sánchez-Bordona in the case Compass Contract Services.
Sánchez-Bordona proposes that the Court reply as follows to the questions referred for a preliminary ruling by the First-tier Tribunal:
(1) It is not contrary to EU law for a national measure, like that at issue in the main proceedings, in laying down a transitional period for the introduction of reduced limitation periods applicable both to claims for repayment of overpaid VAT and to claims for deduction of input VAT, to provide that the new limitation period should start to run, for the latter, from a later date than the date fixed for it to start running for the former.
(2) In the alternative, were the Court to give an affirmative answer to the first question, the national court would have to draw the appropriate conclusions from infringement of the principle of equal treatment, in accordance with the rules of national law relating to temporal effects, in such a way that the remedies it grants are not contrary to EU law.
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