CELEX: C2005/115/05
Language: en
Date: 2005-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 10 March 2005 in Joined Cases C-96/03 and C-97/03 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven): A. Tempelman v Directeur van de Rijksdienst voor de keuring van Vee en Vlees (Agriculture — Control of foot-and-mouth disease — Protective measures adopted in addition to the measures provided for in Directive 85/511/EEC — Powers of the Member States)

14.5.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 115/3
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Third Chamber)
   of 10 March 2005
   in Joined Cases C-96/03 and C-97/03 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven): A. Tempelman v Directeur van de Rijksdienst voor de keuring van Vee en Vlees (1)
   
   (Agriculture - Control of foot-and-mouth disease - Protective measures adopted in addition to the measures provided for in Directive 85/511/EEC - Powers of the Member States)
   (2005/C 115/05)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   In Joined Cases C-96/03 and C-97/03: reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven (Netherlands), made by decision of 7 January 2003, received at the Court on 4 March 2003, in the proceedings pending before that court between A. Tempelman (C-96/03), Mr and Mrs T.H.J.M. van Schaijk (C-97/03) and Directeur van de Rijksdienst voor de keuring van Vee en Vlees — the Court (Third Chamber), composed of A. Rosas (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, A. Borg Barthet, J.-P. Puissochet, J. Malenovský and U. Lõhmus, Judges; M. Poiares Maduro, Advocate General, M. Múgica Arzamendi, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 10 March 2005, the operative part of which is as follows:
   Since foot-and-mouth disease is a disease which constitutes a serious hazard for animals, Article 10(1) of Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June 1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products with a view to the completion of the internal market confers on Member States the power to adopt measures to control the disease in addition to those provided for in Council Directive 85/511/EEC of 18 November 1985 introducing Community measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease, as amended by Council Directive 90/423/EEC of 26 June 1990, in particular the power to order the slaughter of animals belonging to a holding adjacent to or within a specific radius of a holding containing infected animals.
   Such measures must be adopted in compliance with the objectives pursued by the Community rules in force and, more particularly, Directive 85/511, as amended by Directive 90/423, the general principles of Community law, such as the principle of proportionality, and the obligation to communicate laid down in Article 10(1) of Directive 90/425.
   
      (1)  OJ C 146 of 21.06.2003.