Case C-355/11: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 14 June 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — G. Brouwer v Staatssecretaris van Economische Zaken, Landbouw en Innovatie (Directive 91/629/EEC — Minimum standards for the protection of calves — Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 — Common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy — National legislation transposing Directive 91/629/EEC and declaring the management requirements provided for by that directive to be applicable to, inter alia, calves which are kept confined in the context of a dairy farming operation)
Date: 2012-06-14
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Netherlands, aid to agriculture, calf, dairy farm, terms for aid








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28.7.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 227/6





Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 14 June 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — G. Brouwer v Staatssecretaris van Economische Zaken, Landbouw en Innovatie
(Case C-355/11) (1)

(Directive 91/629/EEC - Minimum standards for the protection of calves - Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 - Common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy - National legislation transposing Directive 91/629/EEC and declaring the management requirements provided for by that directive to be applicable to, inter alia, calves which are kept confined in the context of a dairy farming operation)
2012/C 227/08
Language of the case: Dutch

Referring court

College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven

Parties to the main proceedings


Appellant: G. Brouwer

Respondent: Staatssecretaris van Economische Zaken, Landbouw en Innovatie

Re:

Reference for a preliminary ruling — College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven — Interpretation of Council Directive 91/629/EEC of 19 November 1991 laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves (OJ 1991 L 340, p. 28) and of Articles 4 and 6 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) No 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001 (OJ 2003 L 270, p. 1) — National legislation transposing the Directive by stating that the management requirements apply not only to calves confined for rearing and fattening, but also to calves confined for dairy farming

Operative part of the judgment

Council Directive 91/629/EEC of 19 November 1991 laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 806/2003 of 14 April 2003, must be interpreted as meaning that the requirement, referred to in Article 4 of that directive, according to which the conditions relating to the rearing of calves must comply with the general provisions set out in the annex to that directive, including point 8 of that annex, which prohibits, subject to exceptions, the tethering of calves, applied to calves kept confined by a farmer in the context of a dairy farming operation for agricultural purposes.


(1)  OJ C 282, 24.09.2011.