CELEX: C2006/212/35
Language: en
Date: 2006-09-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-278/06: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht, lodged on 26 June 2006 — Manfred Otten v Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen

2.9.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 212/20
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht, lodged on 26 June 2006 — Manfred Otten v Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen
   (Case C-278/06)
   (2006/C 212/35)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Bundesverwaltungsgericht
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Manfred Otten
   
      Defendant: Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen
   Question(s) referred
   Is Article 7(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 of 28 December 1992 (1), as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1256/1999 of 17 May 1999 (2), to be interpreted as meaning that on expiry of rural leases on a milk-production holding or a milk-production area the attached reference quantities can revert to the lessor even if that lessor is not, or is not about to become, a producer himself, insofar as he transfers the reference quantity as soon as possible through a State sales office to a third party who has that status?
   
      (1)  OJ 1992 L 405, p. 1.
   
      (2)  OJ 1999 L 160, p. 73.