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Preamble
Recitals 67
Title I - SUBJECT MATTER AND SCOPE (Article 1-4) 4
Title II - TERRITORIAL SCOPE (Article 5-8) 4
Title III - TAXABLE PERSONS (Article 9-13) 5
Title IV - TAXABLE TRANSACTIONS (Article 14-30b) 21
Title V - PLACE OF TAXABLE TRANSACTIONS (Article 31-61) 34
- Chapter 1 - Place of supply of goods (Article 31-39) 10
- Chapter 2 - Place of an intra-Community acquisition of goods (Article 40-42) 3
- Chapter 3 - Place of supply of services (Article 43-59a) 18
  - Section 1 - Definitions (Article 43) 1
  - Section 2 - General rules (Article 44-45) 2
  - Section 3 - Particular provisions (Article 46-59a) 15
    
    Subsection 1 - Supply of services by intermediaries (Article 46) 1
    
    Subsection 2 - Supply of services connected with immovable property (Article 47) 1
    
    Subsection 3 - Supply of transport (Article 48-52) 5
    
    Subsection 4 - Supply of cultural, artistic, sporting, scientific, educational, entertainment and similar services, ancillary transport services and valuations of and work on movable property (Article 53-54) 2
    
    Subsection 5 - Supply of restaurant and catering services (Article 55) 1
    
    Article 55
    
    Subsection 6 - Hiring of means of transport (Article 56) 1
    
    Subsection 7 - Supply of restaurant and catering services for consumption on board ships, aircraft or trains (Article 57) 1
    
    Subsection 8 - Supply of telecommunications, broadcasting and electronic services to non-taxable persons (Article 58) 1
    
    Subsection 9 - Supply of services to non-taxable persons outside the Community (Article 59) 1
    
    Subsection 10 - Prevention of double taxation or non-taxation (Article 59a) 1
- Chapter 3A - Threshold for taxable persons making supplies of goods covered by point (a) of Article 33 and supplies of services covered by Article 58 (Article 59c) 1
- Chapter 4 - Place of importation of goods (Article 60-61) 2
Title VI - CHARGEABLE EVENT AND CHARGEABILITY OF VAT (Article 62-71) 11
Title VII - TAXABLE AMOUNT (Article 72-92) 22
Title VIII - RATES (Article 93-129a) 13
Title IX - EXEMPTIONS (Article 131-166) 39
Title X - DEDUCTIONS (Article 167-192) 29
Title XI - OBLIGATIONS OF TAXABLE PERSONS AND CERTAIN NON-TAXABLE PERSONS (Article 192a-280) 97
Title XII - SPECIAL SCHEMES (Article 280a-369zc) 122
Title XIII - DEROGATIONS (Article 370-396) 30
Title XIV - MISCELLANEOUS (Article 397-401) 5
Title XV - FINAL PROVISIONS (Article 402-414) 13
Annexes 11

Article 55

The place of supply of restaurant and catering services other than those physically carried out on board ships, aircraft or trains during the section of a passenger transport operation effected within the Community, shall be the place where the services are physically carried out.

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