CELEX: C2004/118/22
Language: en
Date: 2004-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 29 April 2004 in Case C-341/01 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Korneuburg): Plato Plastik Robert Frank GmbH v Caropack Handelsgesellschaft mbH (Directive 94/62/EC — Packaging and waste packaging — Plastic carrier bags — National legislation on the collection and recovery of used packaging and waste packaging — Collection and recovery of used packaging and waste packaging — Obligation to have recourse to an approved undertaking or to organise a collection system — Admissibility)

30.4.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 118/12
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 29 April 2004
   in Case C-341/01 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Korneuburg): Plato Plastik Robert Frank GmbH v Caropack Handelsgesellschaft mbH (1)
   
   (Directive 94/62/EC - Packaging and waste packaging - Plastic carrier bags - National legislation on the collection and recovery of used packaging and waste packaging - Collection and recovery of used packaging and waste packaging - Obligation to have recourse to an approved undertaking or to organise a collection system - Admissibility)
   (2004/C 118/22)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case C-341/01: reference to the Court under Article 234 EC from the Landesgericht (Regional Court) Korneuburg (Austria) for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between Plato Plastik Robert Frank GmbH and Caropack Handelsgesellschaft mbH — on the interpretation of Article 3(1) of European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste (OJ 1994 L 365, p. 10) and other Community provisions — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of: C. W. A. Timmermans, acting for the President of the Fifth Chamber, A. Rosas (Rapporteur) and S. von Bahr, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; M. Múgica Arzamendi, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 29 April 2004, in which it has ruled:
   
               1.
            
            
               Article 3(1) of European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste must be construed as meaning that plastic carrier bags given to customers in a shop, whether free of charge or not, are packaging within the meaning of that directive.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The concept of ‘producer’ in the context of the first subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Directive 94/62 refers to the producer of the goods, not the manufacturer of the packaging produced.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 331, 24.11.2001.