# C_2008209EN.01003701.xml

| 15.8.2008 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 209/37 |
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Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Svea Hovrätt — Miljööverdomstolen (Sweden) lodged on 30 June 2008 — Kemikalieinspektionen v Nordiska Dental AB

(Case C-288/08)

(2008/C 209/57)

Language of the case: Swedish

Referring court

Svea Hovrätt — Miljööverdomstolen

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Kemikalieinspektionen

Defendant: Nordiska Dental AB

Questions referred

| 1 | (a)
Are the provisions of Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices( 1 ) to be interpreted as constituting obstacles to the application of a national prohibition on commercial exports from the country in question of amalgam containing mercury for dental use which is based on considerations of environmental and health protection? (b)
Does the fact that the product concerned bears the CE marking have any bearing on that interpretation? | (a) | Are the provisions of Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices( 1 ) to be interpreted as constituting obstacles to the application of a national prohibition on commercial exports from the country in question of amalgam containing mercury for dental use which is based on considerations of environmental and health protection? | (b) | Does the fact that the product concerned bears the CE marking have any bearing on that interpretation? |
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| (a) | Are the provisions of Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices( 1 ) to be interpreted as constituting obstacles to the application of a national prohibition on commercial exports from the country in question of amalgam containing mercury for dental use which is based on considerations of environmental and health protection? | | | | |
| (b) | Does the fact that the product concerned bears the CE marking have any bearing on that interpretation? | | | | |

| 2. | If the answer to the first question is negative, are Paragraphs 8 and 11 of Swedish Ordinance (1998:944) on, inter alia, prohibition in certain cases in connection with the trade in, and importation and exportation of chemical products, which are based on the considerations stated above, compatible with Articles 29 EC and 30 EC in the case where those provisions are applied to amalgam containing mercury for dental use which bears the CE marking? |
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( 1 )  OJ L 169, p. 1.

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