CELEX: C2006/294/40
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-361/06: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven (Netherlands) lodged on 4 September 2006 — Feinchemie Schwebda GmbH and Bayer CropScience AG v College voor de Toelating van Bestrijdingsmiddelen; other party to the proceedings: Agrichem B.V.

2.12.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 294/23
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven (Netherlands) lodged on 4 September 2006 — Feinchemie Schwebda GmbH and Bayer CropScience AG v College voor de Toelating van Bestrijdingsmiddelen; other party to the proceedings: Agrichem B.V.
   (Case C-361/06)
   (2006/C 294/40)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   Referring court
   College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicants: Feinchemie Schwebda GmbH and Bayer CropScience AG
   
      Defendant: College voor de Toelating van Bestrijdingsmiddelen
   
      Other party to the proceedings: Agrichem B.V.
   Question referred
   Must Article 4(1) of Directive 2002/37/EC (1)be interpreted as meaning that that provision does not require Member States to terminate the authorisation of a plant protection product containing ethofumesate before 1 September 2003 on the ground that the authorisation holder does not have, or have access to, a dossier satisfying the conditions set out in Annex II to Directive 91/414/EEC? (2)
   
   
      (1)  Commission Directive 2002/37/EC of 3 May 2002 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include ethofumesate as an active substance (OJ 2002 L 117, p. 10).
   
      (2)  Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (OJ 1991 L 230, p. 1).