CELEX: 62009CA0218
Language: en
Date: 2010-03-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-218/09: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 18 March 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep te Brussel (Belgium)) — SGS Belgium NV, Firme Derwa NV, Centraal Beheer Achmea NV v Belgisch Interventie- en Restitutiebureau, Firme Derwa NV, Centraal Beheer Achmea NV, SGS Belgium NV, Belgisch Interventie- en Restitutiebureau (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 — Export refunds — Article 5(3) — Conditions for granting — Exception — Force majeure — Products which perished in transit)

22.5.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 134/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 18 March 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep te Brussel (Belgium)) — SGS Belgium NV, Firme Derwa NV, Centraal Beheer Achmea NV v Belgisch Interventie- en Restitutiebureau, Firme Derwa NV, Centraal Beheer Achmea NV, SGS Belgium NV, Belgisch Interventie- en Restitutiebureau
   (Case C-218/09) (1)
   
   (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 - Export refunds - Article 5(3) - Conditions for granting - Exception - Force majeure - Products which perished in transit)
   2010/C 134/13
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Hof van beroep te Brussel
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: SGS Belgium NV, Firme Derwa NV, Centraal Beheer Achmea NV
   
      Defendants: Belgisch Interventie- en Restitutiebureau, Firme Derwa NV, Centraal Beheer Achmea NV, SGS Belgium NV, Belgisch Interventie- en Restitutiebureau
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Hof van beroep te Brussel — Interpretation of Article 5(3) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 of 27 November 1987 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of export refunds on agricultural products (OJ 1987 L 351, p. 1) — Conditions for granting export refunds — Exception — Product which has perished in transit for reasons of force majeure.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 5(3) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 of 27 November 1987 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of export refunds on agricultural products, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1384/95 of 19 June 1995, must be interpreted as meaning that damage to a consignment of beef in the conditions described by the national court does not constitute force majeure within the meaning of that provision.
   
      (1)  OJ C 220, 12.09.2009.