CELEX: 62008CN0365
Language: en
Date: 2008-08-11 00:00:00
Title: Case C-365/08: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 11 August 2008 — Agrana Zucker GmbH v Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft

8.11.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 285/22
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 11 August 2008 — Agrana Zucker GmbH v Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft
   (Case C-365/08)
   (2008/C 285/36)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Verwaltungsgerichtshof
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Agrana Zucker GmbH
   
      Defendant: Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft
   Questions referred
   
               1.
            
            
               Must Article 16 of Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (1) be interpreted as meaning that even a sugar quota which cannot be utilised as a consequence of a preventive withdrawal in accordance with Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 290/2007 of 16 March 2007 establishing, for the 2007/2008 marketing year, the percentage (2) provided for in Article 19 of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006, must be included in the assessment of the production charge?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               In the event that the first question is answered in the affirmative:
               Is Article 16 of Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 compatible with primary law, in particular with the principle of proportionality and the principle of non-discrimination derived from Article 34 EC?
            
         
      (1)  OJ L 58, p. 1.
   
      (2)  OJ L 78, p. 20.