CELEX: 62007CN0473
Language: en
Date: 2007-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-473/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'Etat (France) lodged on 25 October 2007 — Association Nationale pour la Protection des Eaux et Rivières — TOS, Association OABA v Ministère de l'écologie, du développement et de l'aménagement durables — Intervener: Association France Nature Environnement

26.1.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 22/22
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'Etat (France) lodged on 25 October 2007 — Association Nationale pour la Protection des Eaux et Rivières — TOS, Association OABA v Ministère de l'écologie, du développement et de l'aménagement durables — Intervener: Association France Nature Environnement
   (Case C-473/07)
   (2008/C 22/42)
   Language of the case: French
   Referring court
   Conseil d'Etat
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicants: Association Nationale pour la Protection des Eaux et Rivières — TOS, Association OABA
   
      Defendant: Ministère de l'écologie, du développement et de l'aménagement durables
   Questions referred
   Must paragraph 6.6(a) of Annex I to Directive 96/61/EC (1), which applies to installations for the intensive rearing of poultry with more than 40 000 places, be interpreted:
   
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               as including within its scope quails, partridges and pigeons; and, if so,
            
         
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               as authorising a mechanism for calculating authorisation thresholds on the basis of a system of ‘animal-equivalents’, which gives weighting to the number of animals per place according to species so that account may be taken of the amount of nitrogen actually excreted by the various species?
            
         
      (1)  Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control (OJ 1996 L 257, p. 26).