CELEX: C2005/271/06
Language: en
Date: 2005-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 15 September 2005 in Joined Cases C-281/03 and C-282/03, Reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven: Cindu Chemicals BV and Others v College voor de toelating van bestrijdingsmiddelen (Directive 76/769/EEC — Dangerous substances — Ability of the Member States to lay down additional conditions for the placing on the market and use of a biocidal product the use of whose active substance is restricted by the directive — Wood preservatives containing coal-tar distillates (carbolineum and creosote) — Wood preservatives containing copper, chrome and arsenic)

29.10.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 271/3
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   of 15 September 2005
   in Joined Cases C-281/03 and C-282/03, Reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven: Cindu Chemicals BV and Others v College voor de toelating van bestrijdingsmiddelen (1)
   
   (Directive 76/769/EEC - Dangerous substances - Ability of the Member States to lay down additional conditions for the placing on the market and use of a biocidal product the use of whose active substance is restricted by the directive - Wood preservatives containing coal-tar distillates (carbolineum and creosote) - Wood preservatives containing copper, chrome and arsenic)
   (2005/C 271/06)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   In Joined Cases C-281/03 and C-282/03: references for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven (Netherlands), made by decision of 26 June 2003, received at the Court on 30 June 2003, in the proceedings between Cindu Chemicals BV (C-281/03), Rütgers VFT AG, Touwen & Co. BV, Pearl Paint Holland BV, Elf Atochem Nederland BV, Zijlstra & Co. Verf BV, Chemische Producten Struyk & Co. BV, Van Swaay Schijndel BV, Houtbereiding G. Rozendaal BV, Arch Timber Protection BV (C-282/03) and College voor de toelating van bestrijdingsmiddelen, intervener: Stichting Behoud Leefmilieu en Natuur Maas en Waal — the Court (Second Chamber), composed of C.W.A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta, J. Makarczyk, P. Kūris and G. Arestis (Rapporteur), Judges; F.G. Jacobs, Advocate General; M.-F. Contet, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 15 September 2005, the operative part of which is as follows:
   Council Directive 76/769/EEC of 27 July 1976 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations, as amended by European Parliament and Council Directive 94/60/EC of 20 December 1994, must be interpreted as not permitting a Member State to impose on the placing on the market and use of a biocidal product the active substance of which is included in Annex I thereto conditions other than those which the directive lays down, without prejudice to the application of other relevant Community provisions laying down specific conditions for that product.
   
      (1)  OJ C 251, 18.10.2003.