CELEX: 62014CN0148
Language: en
Date: 2014-03-31 00:00:00
Title: Case C-148/14: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Germany) lodged on 31 March 2014  — Bundesrepublik Deutschland v Nordzucker AG

21.7.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 235/2
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Germany) lodged on 31 March 2014 — Bundesrepublik Deutschland v Nordzucker AG
   (Case C-148/14)
   2014/C 235/03
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Bundesverwaltungsgericht
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: Bundesrepublik Deutschland
   
      Respondent: Nordzucker AG
   
      Additional party: Der Vertreter des Bundesinteresses beim Bundesverwaltungsgericht
   
      Question referred
   
   Must Article 16(3) and (4) of Directive 2003/87/EC (1) be interpreted as meaning that the excess emissions penalty must also be applied in the case where an operator has, by 30 April of a given year, surrendered a number of allowances corresponding to the total emissions stated in its report on emissions from the installation for the preceding year, and that report has been assessed as satisfactory by the verifier, but where the competent authority, after 30 April, has established that the verified emissions report had erred by understating the total quantity of emissions, the report was duly corrected and the operator surrendered the additional allowances within the new period for surrender?
   
      (1)  Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC (OJ 2003 L 275, p. 32).