Court of Justice 10 September 2009, C-262/08 (CopyGene A/S v Skatteministeriet.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1. Community VAT rules provide for the exemption of, inter alia, hospital and medical care and ‘closely related activities’ undertaken by bodies governed by public law or, under comparable social conditions, by hospitals, centres for medical treatment or diagnosis or ‘other duly recognised establishments of a similar nature’. 2.