62023CJ0286_SUM
Case C‑286/23
Asociația Crescătorilor de Vaci ‘Bălțată Românească’ Tip Simmental
v
Genetica din Transilvania Cooperativă AgricolăandAgenţia Naţională pentru Zootehnie ‘Prof. dr. G. K. Constantinescu’
(Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Braşov)
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 29 July 2024
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Common agricultural policy – Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 – Purebred breeding animals – Recognition procedure for breed societies – Approval procedure for breeding programmes – Possibility of refusing to approve a further breeding programme for the same breed, for the same territory, if such approval has potential to compromise an already existing breeding programme – Right of breeders of purebred animals to choose between the various existing breeding programmes)
Agriculture – Common agricultural policy – Animal breeding – Regulation 2016/1012 – Recognition of breed societies and breeding operations – Requirements relating to the recognition of breed societies and breeding operations – Granting of recognition as a breed society to an applicant relying on participation undertakings from breeders already registered in a breeding programme with another recognised breed society – Whether permissible
(European Parliament and Council Regulation 2016/1012, recitals 1, 21, 24 and 31, Art. 4(3) and Annex I, part 1)
(see paragraphs 42, 46-49, operative part 1)
Agriculture – Common agricultural policy – Animal breeding – Regulation 2016/1012 – Approval of breed programmes – Exceptions – Rights and obligations of breeders, breed societies and breeding operations – Breeding programme having as its principal objective the improvement of a breed of animals ongoing in a Member State – Possibility of refusing to approve a further breeding programme for the same breed, for the same territory – Condition – Approval having potential to compromise an existing breeding programme
(European Parliament and Council Regulation 2016/1012, recitals 21 and 24, Art. 8(3), Arts 10 and 13, Annex I, part 1, section B, point 2(a))
(see paragraphs 53, 58, 60, 61, operative part 2)
See the text of the decision.