CELEX: 62009CN0346
Language: en
Date: 2009-08-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-346/09: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Gerechtshof’s-Gravenhage (Netherlands) lodged on 28 August 2009 — State of the Netherlands v Denkavit Nederland b.v. and Others

21.11.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 282/25
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Gerechtshof’s-Gravenhage (Netherlands) lodged on 28 August 2009 — State of the Netherlands v Denkavit Nederland b.v. and Others
   (Case C-346/09)
   2009/C 282/44
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Gerechtshof’s-Gravenhage
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
               Applicant
            
            
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               State of the Netherlands
            
         
               Defendants
            
            
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                           Denkavit Nederland b.v.,
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Arie Blok b.v.,
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Cehave b.v.,
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Demeter b.v.
                        
                     
         
      Question referred
   
   Must Community law, and specifically Directive 90/425/EEC, (1) Decision 94/381/EC (2) and Decision 2000/766/EC, (3) be interpreted as meaning that any national prohibition, such as that laid down in Article 2 of the Tijdelijke regeling, which, with a view to affording protection against BSE, prohibits the production of and trading in processed animal proteins intended for feeding to farmed animals, is incompatible with those provisions if such a national prohibition
   
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               entered into force on 15 December 2000 (and so before Decision 2000/766/EC) and
            
         
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               also applied temporarily (until Decision 2001/9/EC (4) of 29 December 2000 entered into force) to fishmeal and dicalcium phosphate?
            
         
      (1)  Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June 1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable in intra- Community trade in certain live animals and products with a view to the completion of the internal market (OJ L 224, p. 29).
   
      (2)  Commission Decision 94/381/EC of 27 June 1994 concerning certain protection measures with regard to bovine spongiform encephalopathy and the feeding of mammalian derived protein (OJ L 172, p. 23).
   
      (3)  Council Decision 2000/766/EC of 4 December 2000 concerning certain protection measures with regard to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and the feeding of animal protein (OJ L 306, p. 32).
   
      (4)  Commission Decision 2001/9/EC of 29 December 2000 concerning control measures required for the implementation of Council Decision 2000/766/EC concerning certain protection measures with regard to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and the feeding of animal protein (OJ 2001 L 2, p. 32).