CELEX: 62006CA0361
Language: en
Date: 2008-05-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-361/06: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 22 May 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven) — Feinchemie Schwebda GmbH, Bayer CropScience AG v College voor de toelating van bestrijdingsmiddelen (Plant protection products — Authorisation to place on the market — Ethofumesate — Directives 91/414/EEC and 2002/37/EC — Regulation (EEC) No 3600/92 — Application for reopening of the oral procedure)

5.7.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 171/5
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 22 May 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven) — Feinchemie Schwebda GmbH, Bayer CropScience AG v College voor de toelating van bestrijdingsmiddelen
   (Case C-361/06) (1)
   
   (Plant protection products - Authorisation to place on the market - Ethofumesate - Directives 91/414/EEC and 2002/37/EC - Regulation (EEC) No 3600/92 - Application for reopening of the oral procedure)
   (2008/C 171/08)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   Referring court
   College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Feinchemie Schwebda GmbH, Bayer CropScience AG
   
      Defendant: College voor de toelating van bestrijdingsmiddelen
   
      Intervener: Agrichem BV
   Re:
   Preliminary ruling — College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven — Interpretation of Article 4(1) of Commission Directive 2002/37/EC of 3 May 2002 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include ethofumesate as an active substance (OJ 2002 L 117, p. 10) — Obligation on Member States to withdraw, before 1 September 2003, authorisation for any product containing ethofumesate in the case where the authorisation holder does not have, or does not have access to, a dossier satisfying the conditions set out in Annex II to Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (OJ 1991 L 230, p. 1)
   Operative part of the judgment
   Article 4(1) of Commission Directive 2002/37/EC of 3 May 2002 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include ethofumesate as an active substance must be interpreted as not requiring Member States to terminate, before 1 September 2003, the authorisation of a plant protection product containing ethofumesate on the ground that the holder of that authorisation does not hold, or have access to, a dossier satisfying the requirements set out in Annex II to Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market.
   
      (1)  OJ C 294, 2.12.2006.