Joined Cases C-78/16 and C-79/16: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 9 June 2016 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per il Lazio — Italy) — Giovanni Pesce and Others (C-78/16), Cesare Serinelli and Others (C-79/16) v Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri (C-79/16) Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri — Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, Commissario Delegato Per Fronteggiare il Rischio Fitosanitario Connesso alla Diffusione della Xylella nel Territorio della Regione Puglia, Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali, Regione Puglia (Preliminary ruling — Protection of plant health — Directive 2000/29/EC — Protection against the introduction into and the spread within the Union of organisms harmful to plants or plant products — Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/789 — Measures designed to avoid the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Xylella fastidiosa (Wells and Raju) — Article 6(2)(a) — Obligation to carry out the immediate removal of host plants, regardless of their health status, within a radius of 100 metres around the infected plants — Validity — Article 16(3) of Directive 2000/29 — Principle of proportionality — Precautionary principle — Obligation to state reasons — Right to compensation)
Date: 2016-06-09
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: import (EU), import restriction, indemnification, intra-EU trade, plant disease, plant health control, principle of proportionality, protection of plant life, seed








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16.8.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 296/17





Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 9 June 2016 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per il Lazio — Italy) — Giovanni Pesce and Others (C-78/16), Cesare Serinelli and Others (C-79/16) v Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri (C-79/16) Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri — Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, Commissario Delegato Per Fronteggiare il Rischio Fitosanitario Connesso alla Diffusione della Xylella nel Territorio della Regione Puglia, Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali, Regione Puglia
(Joined Cases C-78/16 and C-79/16) (1)

((Preliminary ruling - Protection of plant health - Directive 2000/29/EC - Protection against the introduction into and the spread within the Union of organisms harmful to plants or plant products - Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/789 - Measures designed to avoid the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Xylella fastidiosa (Wells and Raju) - Article 6(2)(a) - Obligation to carry out the immediate removal of host plants, regardless of their health status, within a radius of 100 metres around the infected plants - Validity - Article 16(3) of Directive 2000/29 - Principle of proportionality - Precautionary principle - Obligation to state reasons - Right to compensation))
(2016/C 296/22)
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per il Lazio

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: Giovanni Pesce and Others (C-78/16), Cesare Serinelli and Others (C-79/16)

Defendants: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri (C-79/16) Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri — Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, Commissario Delegato Per Fronteggiare il Rischio Fitosanitario Connesso alla Diffusione della Xylella nel Territorio della Regione Puglia, Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali, Regione Puglia

Operative part of the judgment

The examination of the questions referred has disclosed no factor such as to affect the validity of Article 6(2)(a) of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/789 of 18 May 2015 as regards measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Xylella fastidiosa (Wells et al.), in the light of Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community, as amended by Council Directive 2002/89/EC of 28 November 2002, read in the light of the precautionary principle and the principle of proportionality and in the light of the obligation to state reasons provided for in Article 296 TFEU and in Article 41 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.


(1)  OJ C 156, 2.5.2016.