CELEX: 62018CA0239
Language: en
Date: 2019-10-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-239/18: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 17 October 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Thüringer Oberlandesgericht — Germany) — Saatgut-Treuhandverwaltungs GmbH v Freistaat Thüringen (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Plant variety rights — Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 — Derogation provided for in Article 14 — Regulation (EC) No 1768/95 — Article 11(1) and (2) — Requests for information — Information provided by official bodies — Request for information on the actual use of material of specific species or varieties — Content of the request)

16.12.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 423/9
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 17 October 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Thüringer Oberlandesgericht — Germany) — Saatgut-Treuhandverwaltungs GmbH v Freistaat Thüringen
      (Case C-239/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Plant variety rights - Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 - Derogation provided for in Article 14 - Regulation (EC) No 1768/95 - Article 11(1) and (2) - Requests for information - Information provided by official bodies - Request for information on the actual use of material of specific species or varieties - Content of the request)
      (2019/C 423/10)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Thüringer Oberlandesgericht
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Saatgut-Treuhandverwaltungs GmbH
      
         Defendant: Freistaat Thüringen
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 11(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1768/95 of 24 July 1995 implementing rules on the agricultural exemption provided for in Article 14(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 on Community plant variety rights must be interpreted as meaning that it does not provide the possibility for the holder of the Community plant variety right to request information from an official body on the use of material of species, without such a request defining the specific protected variety for which that information is requested.
      
         (1)  OJ C 249, 16.7.2018.