Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2006:679
Date: 2006-10-26
Language of the case: Swedish
Court formation: Fourth Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries
Concepts: Improvement of stock and farming conditions
Procedure: Action for failure to fulfil obligations - successful
Origin: Sweden

Summary of the Judgment Agriculture – Harmonisation of laws – Zootechnical and genealogical conditions governing intra-Community trade in equidae – Directive 90/427 (Council Directive 90/427, Art. 3) A Member State which lays down in its national legislation a requirement that stallions are to be subject to an assessment of their genetic value in that State in order to be used for off-farm mating fails to fulfil its obligations under Article 3 of Directive 90/427 on the zootechnical and genealogical conditions governing intra-Community trade in equidae, according to which Member States may not prohibit or restrict intra-Community trade in equidae and their semen, ova and embryos on zootechnical or genealogical grounds other than those resulting from application of the Directive. (see para. 30, operative part)