CELEX: 62012CN0101
Language: en
Date: 2012-02-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-101/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart (Germany) lodged on 27 February 2012 — Herbert Schaible v Land Baden-Württemberg

5.5.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 133/19
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart (Germany) lodged on 27 February 2012 — Herbert Schaible v Land Baden-Württemberg
   (Case C-101/12)
   2012/C 133/35
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Herbert Schaible
   
      Defendant: Land Baden-Württemberg
   
      Questions referred
   
   The questions whether
   
               (a)
            
            
               the claimant’s obligation to identify individual animals under Articles 3(1) and 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 21/2004, (1)
               
            
         
               (b)
            
            
               the claimant’s obligation of electronic identification of individual animals under the first subparagraph of Article 9(3) of Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1560/2007, (2) and
            
         
               (c)
            
            
               the claimant’s obligation to keep holding register C in accordance with Article 5(1) in conjunction with point B(2) of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 21/2004
            
         are compatible with higher-ranking European Union law and therefore valid are referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC (OJ 2004 L 5, p. 8).
   
      (2)  Council Regulation (EC) No 1560/2007 of 17 December 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 as regards the date of introduction of electronic identification for ovine and caprine animals (OJ 2007 L 340, p. 25).