CELEX: 62007CA0473
Language: en
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-473/07: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 22 January 2009 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État (France)) — Association nationale pour la protection des eaux et rivières — TOS, Association OABA v Ministère de l'écologie, du développement et de l'aménagement durables (Pollution and nuisance — Directive 96/61/EC — Annex I — Subheading 6.6(a) — Intensive rearing of poultry — Definition — Meaning of poultry — Maximum number of animals per installation)

21.3.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 69/9
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 22 January 2009 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État (France)) — Association nationale pour la protection des eaux et rivières — TOS, Association OABA v Ministère de l'écologie, du développement et de l'aménagement durables
   (Case C-473/07) (1)
   
   (Pollution and nuisance - Directive 96/61/EC - Annex I - Subheading 6.6(a) - Intensive rearing of poultry - Definition - Meaning of ‘poultry’ - Maximum number of animals per installation)
   (2009/C 69/13)
   Language of the case: French
   Referring court
   Conseil d'État
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicants: Association nationale pour la protection des eaux et rivières — TOS, Association OABA
   
      Defendant: Ministère de l'écologie, du développement et de l'aménagement durables
   
      Intervener: Association France Nature Environnement
   Re:
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Conseil d'État (France) — Interpretation of Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control (OJ 1996 L 257, p. 26) — Scope ratione materiae of the directive — Installations for the intensive rearing of poultry with more than 40 000 places (subject to an authorisation requirement) (subheading 6.6(a) of Annex I to the directive) — Concepts of ‘poultry’ and ‘places’ — Whether quail, partridge and pigeon are included within the scope of the directive — If so, whether national legislation which gives weighting to the number of animals per place according to species is permissible
   Operative part of the judgment
   
               1.
            
            
               The term ‘poultry’, which appears in subheading 6.6(a) of Annex I to Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 September 2003, must be interpreted as including quails, partridges and pigeons.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Subheading 6.6(a) of Annex I to Directive 96/61, as amended by Regulation No 1882/2003, precludes national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which calculates the thresholds for authorisation of installations for intensive rearing on the basis of a system of ‘animal-equivalents’ founded on a weighting of animals by places according to species so that account may be taken of the amount of nitrogen actually excreted by the various bird species.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 22, 26.1.2008.