CELEX: 62016CA0325
Language: en
Date: 2018-05-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-325/16: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 17 May 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo — Spain) — Industrias Químicas del Vallés SA v Administracíon General del Estado, Sapec Agro SA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Agriculture — Directive 91/414/EEC — Directive 2010/28/EU — Article 3(1) — Procedure for re-evaluation by Member States, authorised plant protection products — Time limit — Extension)

201806220331970312018/C 240/033252016CJC24020180709EN01ENINFO_JUDICIAL201805173311Case C-325/16: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 17 May 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo — Spain) — Industrias Químicas del Vallés SA v Administracíon General del Estado, Sapec Agro SA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Agriculture — Directive 91/414/EEC — Directive 2010/28/EU — Article 3(1) — Procedure for re-evaluation by Member States, authorised plant protection products — Time limit — Extension)
 ---documentbreak--- C2402018EN310120180517EN00033131Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 17 May 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo — Spain) — Industrias Químicas del Vallés SA v Administracíon General del Estado, Sapec Agro SA
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   ‛(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Agriculture — Directive 91/414/EEC — Directive 2010/28/EU — Article 3(1) — Procedure for re-evaluation by Member States, authorised plant protection products — Time limit — Extension)’2018/C 240/03Language of the case: Spanish
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal Supremo
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Industrias Químicas del Vallés SA
   
      Defendants: Administracíon General del Estado, Sapec Agro SA
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 3(1) of Commission Directive 2010/28/EU of 23 April 2010 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include the active substance metalaxyl must be interpreted as meaning that the time limit that it lays down, expiring on 31 December 2010, to allow Member State to amend or withdraw, in accordance with Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, existing authorisations for plant protection products containing metalaxyl as an active substance, is a mandatory time limit, which cannot be extended by those Member States.
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      )	OJ C 305, 22.8.2016.