CELEX: 62009CN0142
Language: en
Date: 2009-04-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-142/09: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Dendermonde (Belgium) lodged on 22 April 2009 — Criminal proceedings against V.W. Lahousse & Lavichy BVBA

4.7.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 153/25
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Dendermonde (Belgium) lodged on 22 April 2009 — Criminal proceedings against V.W. Lahousse & Lavichy BVBA
   (Case C-142/09)
   2009/C 153/45
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Dendermonde
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
               Defendants:
            
            
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                           1.
                        
                        
                           V.W. Lahousse
                        
                     
                           2.
                        
                        
                           Lavichy BVBA
                        
                     
         
      Question referred
   
   Must Directive 2002/24/EC, (1) in particular Article 1(1)(d) thereof (according to which the directive does not apply to vehicles intended for use in competition, on roads or in off-road conditions), be interpreted as allowing the Member States to extend its scope so as to render it applicable to all traffic by land (that is to say, also to the use of two or three-wheel motor vehicles off-road and/or on private land), without granting the exception in respect of vehicles intended for use in competition on roads (racing) or for vehicles in off-road conditions?
   
      (1)  Directive 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 March 2002 relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles and repealing Council Directive 92/61/EEC (OJ 2002 L 124, p. 1).