CELEX: 62013CN0443
Language: en
Date: 2013-08-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-443/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat in Tirol (Austria) lodged on 7 August 2013 — Ute Reindl, MPREIS Warenvertriebs GmbH v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Innsbruck

23.11.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 344/39
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat in Tirol (Austria) lodged on 7 August 2013 — Ute Reindl, MPREIS Warenvertriebs GmbH v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Innsbruck
   (Case C-443/13)
   2013/C 344/69
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat in Tirol
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Defendants and appellants: Ute Reindl, MPREIS Warenvertriebs GmbH
   
      Applicant and respondent: Bezirkshauptmannschaft Innsbruck
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Is Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1086/2011 (1) amending Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 to be understood as meaning that fresh poultry meat must satisfy the microbiological criterion set out in Annex I, Chapter 1, Row 1.28, to Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 (2) at all stages of distribution?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Are food business operators which are active at the food distribution stage also subject in full to the regime under Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005?
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Must the microbiological criterion set out in Annex I, Chapter 1, Row 1.28, to Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 also be observed at all stages of distribution by food business operators which are not involved in production (being involved exclusively at the distribution stage)?
            
         
      (1)  Commission Regulation (EU) No 1086/2011 of 27 October 2011 amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 as regards salmonella in fresh poultry meat (OJ 2011 L 281, p. 7).
   
      (2)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 of 15 November 2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs (OJ 2005 L 338, p. 1).