CELEX: C2006/060/16
Language: en
Date: 2006-03-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of  12 January 2006  in Case C-504/04: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Schwerin in Agrarproduktion Stabelow GmbH v Landrat des Landkreises Bad Doberan (Animal health — Prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies — Slaughter of birth cohorts — Proportionality)

11.3.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 60/8
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Third Chamber)
   of 12 January 2006
   in Case C-504/04: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Schwerin in Agrarproduktion Stabelow GmbH v Landrat des Landkreises Bad Doberan (1)
   
   (Animal health - Prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies - Slaughter of birth cohorts - Proportionality)
   (2006/C 60/16)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case C-504/04: Reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC from the Verwaltungsgericht Schwerin (Germany), made by decision of 9 January 2004, received at the Court on 8 December 2004, in the proceedings Agrarproduktion Stabelow GmbH v Landrat des Landkreises Bad Doberan — the Court (Third Chamber), composed of M.A. Rosas (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, J. Malenovský, A. La Pergola, A. Borg Barthet and A.Ó Caoimh, Judges; M.Poiares Maduro, Advocate General; M.B. Fülöp, Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 12 January 2006, in which it ruled as follows:
   Examination of the question referred has not revealed anything capable of affecting, in the light of the principle of proportionality, the validity of Article 13(1), first sentence, (c), of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1326/2001 of 29 June 2001 laying down transitional measures to permit the changeover to Regulation No 999/2001 and amending Annexes VII and XI to that regulation, in conjunction with Annex VII(2)(a) and the third indent of Annex VII(1)(a) to that regulation.
   
      (1)  OJ C 57, 5.3.2005.