CELEX: 62007CA0187
Language: en
Date: 2008-04-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-187/07: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 3 April 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Zutphen (Netherlands)) — Criminal proceedings against Dirk Endendijk (Directive 91/629/EEC — Decision 97/182/EC — Rearing of calves — Individual pens — Prohibition on tethering calves — Meaning of the verb tether — Material and length — Different language versions — Uniform interpretation)

24.5.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 128/14
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 3 April 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Zutphen (Netherlands)) — Criminal proceedings against Dirk Endendijk
   (Case C-187/07) (1)
   
   (Directive 91/629/EEC - Decision 97/182/EC - Rearing of calves - Individual pens - Prohibition on tethering calves - Meaning of the verb ‘tether’ - Material and length - Different language versions - Uniform interpretation)
   (2008/C 128/23)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   Referring court
   Rechtbank Zutphen
   Party in the main proceedings
   Dirk Endendijk
   Re:
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Rechtbank Zutphen — Interpretation of point 8 of the Annex to Council Directive 91/629/EEC of 19 November 1991 laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves (OJ 1991 L 340, p. 28) read in conjunction with Article 1(3) of Commission Decision 97/182/EC of 24 February 1997 amending the Annex to Directive 91/629 (OJ 1997 L 76, p. 30) — Meaning of ‘tether’
   Operative part of the judgment
   A calf is tethered within the meaning of Council Directive 91/629/EEC of 19 November 1991 laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves, as amended by Commission Decision 97/182/EC of 24 February 1997, where it is tied by a rope, irrespective of the material, length and purpose of that rope.
   
      (1)  OJ C 129, 9.6.2007.