CELEX: 62011CN0408
Language: en
Date: 2011-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Case C-408/11: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Münster (Germany) lodged on 1 August 2011 — Criminal proceedings against Thomas Karl-Heinz Kerkhoff

22.10.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 311/20
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Münster (Germany) lodged on 1 August 2011 — Criminal proceedings against Thomas Karl-Heinz Kerkhoff
   (Case C-408/11)
   2011/C 311/34
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Amtsgericht Münster (Germany)
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   Thomas Karl-Heinz Kerkhoff
   Staatsanwaltschaft Münster
   
      Question referred
   
   Is Article 11(4) of Directive 2006/126/EC (1) to be interpreted as meaning that a Member State is entitled to refuse, on a long-term basis, to recognise a driving licence issued by another Member State, if the holder previously had his driving licence withdrawn on the territory of the first Member State, without a separate period of suspension before a new licence is issued having been imposed or a period of suspension imposed having expired?
   
      (1)  Directive 2006/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on driving licences (Recast); OJ 2006 L 403, p. 18.