CELEX: C2006/326/78
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-446/06: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven (Netherlands) lodged on 31 October 2006 — A.G. Winkel v Minister van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit

30.12.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 326/37
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven (Netherlands) lodged on 31 October 2006 — A.G. Winkel v Minister van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit
   (Case C-446/06)
   (2006/C 326/78)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   Referring court
   College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: A.G. Winkel
   
      Defendant: Minister van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit
   Questions referred
   
               1.
            
            
               Are rules which, as regards the right to a suckler-cow premium, require, on the basis of the usual animal husbandry practice, that a cow has calved at least once in the period which runs from twenty months before to four months after the date on which the application period started and its calf was not removed from the herd within four months after its birth, compatible with Article 3(f) of Regulation (EC) (1) No 1254/1999?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If the answer to Question 1 is in the negative, what criteria must be applied to establish whether the herd is intended for rearing calves for meat production and which cows belong to that herd?
            
         
      (1)  Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999, of 17 May 1999, on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal (OJ 1999 L 160, p. 21).