Case C-466/06: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de grande instance de Nanterre (France) lodged on 21 November 2006 — Société Roquette Frères SA v Direction générale des douanes et des droits indirects and Recette principale de Gennevilliers de la Direction générale des douanes et des droits indirects
Date: 2006-12-30
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: common organisation of markets, interpretation of the law, isoglucose, production quota, sugar

30.12.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 326/47

Action brought on 20 November 2006 — Commission of
the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain

Questions referred

(Case C-465/06)

(2006/C 326/95)

Language of the case: Spanish

1. Primarily

Parties

Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: E. Montaguti and R. Vidal Puig, Agents, acting as
Agents)

Defendant: Kingdom of Spain

Form of order sought

— declare that, by failing to adopt the provisions necessary to
comply with Directive 2003/98/EC (1) of
the European
Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the
in any event, by
re-use of public sector information and,
the
failing to communicate them to the Commission,
Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under
that directive;

— order Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments

The period for transposition of Directive 2003/98/EC expired
on 1 July 2005.

(1) OJ L 345 of 31.12.2003, p. 90.

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de
grande instance de Nanterre (France)
lodged on 21
November 2006 — Société Roquette Frères SA v Direction
générale des douanes et des droits indirects and Recette
principale de Gennevilliers de la Direction générale des
douanes et des droits indirects

(Case C-466/06)

(2006/C 326/96)

Language of the case: French

Referring court

Tribunal de grande instance, Nanterre

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Société Roquette Frères SA

Defendants: Direction générale des douanes et des droits indirects
and Recette principale de Gennevilliers de la Direction générale
des douanes et des droits indirects

and Article

Are Article 24(2) of Regulation No 1785/81 (1), Article 27
(3) of Regulation No 2038/1999 (2), Article 1 of Regulation
No 2073/2000 (3), Article
[1](2) of Regulation No
1745/2002 (4)
Regulation No
1739/2003 (5) valid in so far as they fix the maximum basic
quantities for isoglucose production for Metropolitan France
without taking into consideration the isoglucose produced in
that Member State between 1 November 1978 and 30 April
1979 as an intermediate product used in the manufacture of
other products intended for sale?

of

1

2. In the alternative,
previous question:

in the event of a negative reply to the

1443/82 (6)

Are Commission Regulations Nos
and
314/2002 (7)
invalid under Article 33 of Regulation No
2038 1999 and Article 15 of Council Regulation No
1260/2001 on the common organisation of the markets in
the sugar sector respectively and with regard to the principles
of proportionality and non-discrimination, in so far as they
do not provide, for the purposes of calculating the produc-
tion levy, for excluding from the financing needs the quanti-
ties of sugar (8) contained in the processed products exported
without [export] refund?

(1) Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the
common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (OJ 1981 L
177, p. 4).

(2) Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13 September 1999 on
the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (OJ
1999 L 252, p. 1).

(3) Commission Regulation (EC) No 2073/2000 of 29 September 2000
reducing, for the 2000/2001 marketing year, the guaranteed quantity
under the production quotas scheme for the sugar sector and the
presumed maximum supply needs of sugar refineries under the
preferential import arrangements (OJ 2000 L 246, p. 38).

(4) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1745/2002 of 30 September 2002
reducing, for the 2002/2003 marketing year, the guaranteed quantity
under the production quotas scheme for the sugar sector and the
presumed maximum supply needs of sugar refineries under the
preferential import arrangements (OJ 2002 L 263, p. 31).

(5) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1739/2003 of 30 September 2003
reducing, for the 2003/2004 marketing year, the guaranteed quantity
under the production quotas for the sugar sector and the presumed
maximum supply needs of
refineries under preferential
sugar
imports (OJ 2003 L 249, p. 38).

(6) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1443/82 of 8 June 1982 laying
down detailed rules for the application of the quota system in the
sugar sector (OJ 1982 L 158, p. 17).

(7) Commission Regulation (EC) No 314/2002 of 20 February 2002
laying down detailed rules for the application of the quota system in
the sugar sector (OJ 2002 L 50, p. 40).

(8) Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 on the common organisa-

tion of the markets in the sugar sector (OJ 2001 L 178, p.1).