CELEX: 62013CN0011
Language: en
Date: 2013-01-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-11/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht (Germany) lodged on 10 January 2013 — Bayer CropScience AG

23.3.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 86/10
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht (Germany) lodged on 10 January 2013 — Bayer CropScience AG
   (Case C-11/13)
   2013/C 86/16
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Bundespatentgericht
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant and appellant: Bayer CropScience AG
   
      Question referred
   
   The following question is referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of Article 3(1) and of Article 1.8 and 1.3 of Regulation (EC) No 1610/96: (1)
   
   Are the terms ‘product’ in Article 3(1) and Article 1.8 and ‘active substance’ in Article 1.3 of that regulation to be interpreted as covering a safener?
   
      (1)  Regulation (EC) No 1610/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products (OJ 1996 L 198, p. 30).