# C_2022424EN.01002402.xml

| 7.11.2022 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 424/24 |
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7.11.2022

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 424/24

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Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (France) lodged on 22 July 2022 — Association interprofessionnelle des fruits et légumes frais (Interfel) v Ministère de l’Agriculture et de la Souveraineté alimentaire

(Case C-504/22)

(2022/C 424/31)

Language of the case: French

Referring court

Conseil d’État

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Association interprofessionnelle des fruits et légumes frais (Interfel)

Defendant: Ministère de l’Agriculture et de la Souveraineté alimentaire

Questions referred

| 1. | Is Article 164 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of 17 December 2013 (1) to be interpreted as authorising the extension of inter-trade agreements which establish more stringent standards than those laid down in Union rules not only in the case of ‘production rules’, mentioned in point (b) of Article 164(4), but also in all of the cases mentioned in points (a) and (c) to (n) thereof, in relation to which Article 164 provides that the extension of an inter-trade agreement may be requested? |
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Is Article 164 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of 17 December 2013 (1) to be interpreted as authorising the extension of inter-trade agreements which establish more stringent standards than those laid down in Union rules not only in the case of ‘production rules’, mentioned in point (b) of Article 164(4), but also in all of the cases mentioned in points (a) and (c) to (n) thereof, in relation to which Article 164 provides that the extension of an inter-trade agreement may be requested?

| 2. | Are rules fixing harvesting dates and marketing dates rules that can be laid down by inter-trade agreement and extended on the basis of Article 164 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of 17 December 2013 and, if so, are rules fixing harvesting dates and marketing dates ‘production rules’, as referred to in point (b) of Article 164(4) or, as Annex XVIa to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 (2) establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products[, as amended,] previously stipulated, ‘marketing rules’, as now referred to in point (d) of Article 164(4)? |
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Are rules fixing harvesting dates and marketing dates rules that can be laid down by inter-trade agreement and extended on the basis of Article 164 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of 17 December 2013 and, if so, are rules fixing harvesting dates and marketing dates ‘production rules’, as referred to in point (b) of Article 164(4) or, as Annex XVIa to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 (2) establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products[, as amended,] previously stipulated, ‘marketing rules’, as now referred to in point (d) of Article 164(4)?

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(1)  Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ 2013 L 347, p. 671).

(2)  Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (OJ 2007 L 299, p. 1).

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