# C_2004106EN.01000101.xml

| 30.4.2004 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 106/1 |
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30.4.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 106/1

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JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Sixth Chamber)

of 25 March 2004

in Joined Cases C-231/00. C-303/00 and C-451/00 referred for a preliminary ruling by the Tribunale amministrativo regionale del Lazio (Italy) Cooperativa Lattepiù arl and Azienda di Stato per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo (AIMA), Azienda Agricola Marcello Balestreri e Maura Lena and Regione Lombardia, Azienda di Stato per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo (AIMA) and between Azienda Agricola Giuseppe Cantarello and Azienda di Stato per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo (AIMA), Ministero delle Politiche Agricole e Forestali (1)

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(Agriculture - Common organisation of the markets - Milk and milk products - Additional levy on milk - Regulations (EEC) Nos 3950/92 and 536/93 - Reference quantities - Ex post correction - Notification of producers)

(2004/C 106/01)

Language of the case: Italian

In Joined Cases C-231/00, C-303/00 and C-451/00, reference to the Court under Article 234 EC by the Tribunale amministrativo regionale del Lazio (Italy) for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between Cooperativa Lattepiù arl and Azienda di Stato per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo (AIMA) (C-231/00), between Azienda Agricola Marcello Balestreri e Maura Lena and Regione Lombardia, Azienda di Stato per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo (AIMA) (C-303/00), and between Azienda Agricola Giuseppe Cantarello and Azienda di Stato per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo (AIMA), Ministero delle Politiche Agricole e Forestali (C-451/00), – on the interpretation and validity of Articles 1, 4, 6 and 7 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 of 28 December 1992 establishing an additional levy in the milk and milk products sector (OJ 1992 L 405, p. 1), and of Articles 3 and 4 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 536/93 of 9 March 1993 laying down detailed rules for the application of the additional levy on milk and milk products (OJ 1993 L 57, p. 12) – the Court (Sixth Chamber) composed of: V. Skouris (Rapporteur), acting for the President of the Sixth Chamber, C. Gulmann and J.-P. Puissochet, F. Macken and N. Colneric, Judges, P. Léger, Advocate General, L. Hewlett and H.A. Rühl, Principal Administrators for the Registrar, have given a judgment on 25 March 2004, in which

On a proper construction of Articles 1, 4, 6 and 7 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 of 28 December 1992 establishing an additional levy in the milk and milk products sector and of Articles 3 and 4 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 536/93 laying down detailed rules on the application of the additional levy on milk and milk products, it is not contrary to those provisions for a Member State, after checks have been carried out, to correct the individual reference quantities allocated to each producer and, after the unused reference quantities have been reallocated, to recalculate in consequence the additional levies payable, after the final date for payment of those levies for the milk marketing year concerned

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(1)  OJC 247, 26.8.2000.

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OJC 302, 21.10.2000.

OJC 61, 24.2.2001.

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