CELEX: C2007/155/23
Language: en
Date: 2007-07-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-215/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 24 April 2007 — Verlag Schawe GmbH v Sächsisches Druck- und Verlagshaus AG

7.7.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 155/12
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 24 April 2007 — Verlag Schawe GmbH v Sächsisches Druck- und Verlagshaus AG
   (Case C-215/07)
   (2007/C 155/23)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Bundesgerichtshof
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Verlag Schawe GmbH
   
      Defendant: Sächsisches Druck- und Verlagshaus AG
   Questions referred
   
               1.
            
            
               Do Article 7(1) and (5) and Article 9 of Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases (1) prohibit a legal provision of a Member State, according to which an official database which is published as a matter of general information for official purposes (in this instance: a systematic and complete collection of all calls for tender documents emanating from a German Land) does not benefit from sui generis protection under the directive?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If the answer to Question 1 is in the negative: is this also the case where the database is constructed not by a public body but by a private undertaking on its behalf, to which all bodies of this Land issuing calls for tender must directly submit their calls for tender documents for publication?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 1996 L 77, p. 20.