CELEX: 62016CA0293
Language: en
Date: 2017-06-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-293/16: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 8 June 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo — Spain) — Sharda Europe BVBA v Administración del Estado, Syngenta Agro SA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Agriculture — Placing of plant protection products on the market — Directive 2008/69/EC — Article 3(2) — Procedure for re-evaluation, by the Member States, of authorised plant protection products — Time limit — Divergence between the different language versions)

31.7.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 249/10
            
         Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 8 June 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo — Spain) — Sharda Europe BVBA v Administración del Estado, Syngenta Agro SA
   (Case C-293/16) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Agriculture - Placing of plant protection products on the market - Directive 2008/69/EC - Article 3(2) - Procedure for re-evaluation, by the Member States, of authorised plant protection products - Time limit - Divergence between the different language versions))
   (2017/C 249/13)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal Supremo
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Sharda Europe BVBA
   
      Defendants: Administración del Estado, Syngenta Agro SA
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The first subparagraph of Article 3(2) of Commission Directive 2008/69/EC of 1 July 2008 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include clofentezine, dicamba, difenoconazole, diflubenzuron, imazaquin, lenacil, oxadiazon, picloram and pyriproxyfen as active substances, must be interpreted as meaning that the date of 31 December 2008 to which it refers corresponds, for an already authorised plant protection product containing one of the active substances listed in the Annex to that directive, to the deadline by which all the active substances contained in that plant protection product, other than those listed in the Annex to Directive 2008/69, must have been included on the list in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, in order for an obligation to carry out the re-evaluation of that product, provided for in the first subparagraph of Article 3(2), to arise.
   
      (1)  OJ C 305, 22.8.2016.