On behalf of the German Federal Association of Private Clinics (Bundesverbandes Deutscher Privatkliniken e.V.), on transposition of the Value Added Tax Directive into German law 

The petitioner writes that private clinics licensed under Article 30 of the Industry Code but not included in a Federal State Hospitals Plan, under Article 108 of the Code of Social Law, are treated differently for VAT purposes from hospitals that are included in a Hospitals Plan, although they provide the same necessary medical services. He is asking the European Parliament to call for a change in the German legislation to transpose the principle of tax-law neutrality, enshrined in the Value Added Tax Directive, into the national law on turnover tax.