Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2011:847
Date: 2011-12-15
Language of the case: Danish
Court formation: Eighth Chamber
Subject matter: Environment
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Denmark

Summary of the Judgment Environment – Integrated pollution prevention and control – Directive 96/61 – Installations for the intensive rearing of pigs with more than 750 places for sows – Meaning of places for sows (European Parliament and Council Regulation No 166/2006; Council Directive 96/61, Art. 1 and Annex I, subheading 6.6(c)) The expression ‘places for sows’, in subheading 6.6(c) of Annex I to Directive 96/61 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control, as amended by Regulation No 166/2006, must be interpreted as meaning that it includes places for gilts, that is to say female pigs which have already been serviced, but have not yet farrowed. (see para. 39, operative part)