Lex Browse everything
For developers

Council Directive 2008/117/EC of 16 December 2008 amending Directive 2006/112/EC on the co…

as it stood on 2008-12-16, permalink: /eu-eurlex/32008l0117/2008-12-16--7644b2995adb7e061dadd032699cdba608f5570533ae4dc49a122c4feb3ecc31

Official publisher wording state selected for 2008-12-16. This is the consolidated version dated 2008-12-16. Its interval on Lex's publisher-version axis is publisher version 2008-12-16 → 2009-01-20; that is not a claim about entry into force or application.
Text included, per-article reading view. Deterministic extraction of the verbatim retrieved document; each displayed provision carries its own hash and anchor. © European Union, 1998-2026. Reuse permitted with attribution under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU. Consolidated texts have no legal effect; only acts published in the Official Journal are authentic.
Outline, 5 provisions

art_1 art_2 art_3 art_4 art_5

art_1 #art_1
art_2 #art_2
art_3 #art_3
art_4 #art_4
art_5 #art_5
Provenance and validity dates, identifier, hash
as of2008-12-16 → this publisher state was selected
publisher statepublisher version 2008-12-16 → 2009-01-20 publisher-asserted
typeDIR Council Directive 2008/117/EC of 16 December 2008 amending Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax to combat tax evasion connected with intra-Community transactions
languageen
published2008-12-16
lex_ideu-eurlex:32008l0117:2008-12-16--7644b2995adb7e061dadd032699cdba608f5570533ae4dc49a122c4feb3ecc31
record sha2567588e0b894f48a1ec48bba668944002d9a497f25171de459ee2ce46d7b781f23
New here? What am I looking at?

This is an official consolidated text: the original act with later amendments merged by EUR-Lex for the date shown above.

The consolidation date is not an entry-into-force or application date. It identifies a publisher wording state. The authentic legal acts remain those published in the Official Journal; Lex preserves the consolidated wording, source and hashes as a reading and comparison aid.

Each displayed provision carries its own hash so you can verify that Lex served the indexed text unchanged, here is how.

timeline

tierA, publisher-supplied consolidated wording-state dates
history beginspublisher
index built2026-08-15T09:01:06Z · corpus e9c4df0981c855855a1a28218cf086ddeb5bb691
stamp signaturevalid (ECDSA-P256)