CELEX: C2007/283/09
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-321/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Mannheim (Germany) lodged on 12 July 2007 — Criminal proceedings against Karl Schwarz

24.11.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 283/6
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Mannheim (Germany) lodged on 12 July 2007 — Criminal proceedings against Karl Schwarz
   (Case C-321/07)
   (2007/C 283/09)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Landgericht Mannheim
   Party to the main proceedings
   Karl Schwarz
   Questions referred
   
               1.
            
            
               Is it — contrary to Article 7(5) of Directive 91/439/EEC (1) — possible under Community law for a citizen of the EU to hold a valid German right to drive and a second right to drive issued by another Member State, both of which were obtained before the accession to the EU of the foreign Member State and — if so —
            
         
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               Does the withdrawal — before the entry into force of the Regulation on the right to drive (Fahrerlaubnisverordnung; ‘FeV’) of 1 January 1999 — of the later second German right to drive as a consequence of a drunkenness offence mean that the validity in Germany of the first foreign right to drive, which was issued earlier, also no longer requires to be recognised after accession of the foreign Member State, even where the period of the ban imposed in Germany has expired?
            
         
      (1)  Council Directive 91/439/EEC of 29 July 1991 on driving licences (OJ 1991 L 237, p. 1).