Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2007:330
Date: 2007-06-07
Language of the case: German
Court formation: Fifth Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries;Milk products
Concepts: Co-responsibility levy and additional levy on milk
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Germany

Summary of the Judgment Agriculture – Common organisation of the markets – Milk and milk products – Additional levy on milk (Council Regulation No 3950/92, as amended by Regulation No 1256/1999, Art. 7(2)) Article 7(2) of Regulation No 3950/92 establishing an additional levy in the milk and milk products sector, as amended by Regulation No 1256/1999, is to be interpreted as meaning that, on the expiry of a rural lease on a milk production holding, the attached reference quantity can revert to the lessor in so far as that lessor, not being a producer himself and having no intention to become one, transfers the reference quantity as soon as possible through a State sales office to a third party who has that status. (see para. 40, operative part)