CELEX: 62007CJ0486
Language: en
Date: 2008-12-11
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 11 December 2008. # Agenzia per le Erogazioni in Agricoltura (AGEA) v Consorzio Agrario di Ravenna Soc. Coop. arl. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Corte suprema di cassazione - Italy. # Common organisation of the markets - Cereals - Maize - Determination of price - Reductions applicable. # Case C-486/07.

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 11 December 2008 – AGEA v Consorzio Agrario di Ravenna
      (Case C‑486/07)
      Common organisation of the markets – Cereals – Maize – Determination of price – Reductions applicable
      Agriculture – Common organisation of the markets – Cereals – Sale of cereals held by intervention agencies (Commission Regulations No 689/92, as amended by Regulation No 2486/92, Art.
         4a and Annex II, and No 2131/93, Art. 13(1)) (see para. 32, operative part)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               Reference for a preliminary ruling – Corte Suprema di Cassazione (Italy) – Interpretation of Articles 4 and 5 of Council Regulation
                  (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in cereals (OJ 1992 L 181, p. 21), Article 4a of
                  Commission Regulation (EEC) No 689/92 of 19 March 1992 fixing the procedure and conditions for the taking-over of cereals
                  by intervention agencies (OJ 1992 L 74, p. 18), and of Article 13 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 of 28 July 1993
                  laying down the procedure and conditions for the sale of cereals held by intervention agencies (OJ 1993 L 191, p. 76) – Reductions
                  applicable for a moisture content higher than that of the standard quality – Application to the sale of maize.
               
            Operative part
      The combined provisions of Article 13(1) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 of 28 July 1993 laying down the procedure
         and conditions for the sale of cereals held by intervention agencies and Article 4a of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 689/92
         of 19 March 1992 fixing the procedure and conditions for the taking-over of cereals by intervention agencies, as amended by
         Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2486/92 of 27 August 1992, are to be interpreted as meaning that, in the case of a sale by
         tender of maize held by the international intervention agencies, the price reductions in relation to the moisture content
         laid down for durum wheat in Table II of Annex II to Regulation No 689/92, as amended by Regulation No 2486/92, do not apply.