CELEX: C1995/101/07
Language: en
Date: 1995-04-22 00:00:00
Title: Reference for a preliminary ruling by the House of Lords, by order of that court of 9 February 1995, in the case of Regina against Secretary of State for the Environment, ex-parte: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Case C-44/95)

22 . 4 . 95          lEN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                      No C 101 /3
Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Hof van Cassatie               Reference for a preliminary ruling by the House of Lords, by
by judgment of that court of 10 February 1995 in the case of             order of that court of 9 February 1995 , in the case of Regina
          Belgian State against Ghent Coal Terminal                      against Secretary of State for the Environment, ex-parte:
                           ( Case C-37/95 )                                          Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
                             ( 95/C 101 /05 )                                                       ( Case C-44/95 )
                                                                                                      ( 95/C 101/07)
Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the
European Communities by a judgment of the Hof van                        Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the
Cassatie ( Court of Cassation ), Belgium, of 10 February                 European Communities by an order of the House of Lords
1995 , which was received at the Court Registry on                       of 9 February 1995 , which was received at the Court
16 February 1995 , for a preliminary ruling in the case of               Registry on 24 February 1995 , for a preliminary ruling in
Belgian State against Ghent Coal Terminal on the following               the case of Regina against Secretary of State for the
question:
                                                                         Environment, ex-parte : Royal Society for the Protection of
                                                                         Birds, on the following questions :
Does Article 17 of the Sixth Council Directive of 17 May                 1,    is a Member State entitled to take account of the
1 977 on the harmonization of the laws of the Member States                    considerations mentioned in Article 2 of Council
relating to turnover taxes ( a ) mean that the right to deduct                 Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the
remains in existence for value added tax on investments                        conservation of wild birds ( a ) in classification of an area
which were originally intended for use in the undertaking                      as a Special Protection Area and/or in defining the
but were never in fact put into use by the undertaking ?                       boundaries of such an area pursuant to Article 4 ( 1 )
                                                                               and/or 4 ( 2 ) of that Directive ?
f 1 ) OJ No L 145 , 13 . 6 . 1977, p . 1 .
                                                                         2 . If the answer to question 1 is 'no', may a Member State
                                                                               nevertheless take account of Article 2 considerations in
                                                                               the classification process in so far as:
                                                                               (a ) they amount to a general interest which is superior
                                                                                     to the general interest which is repersented by the
                                                                                     ecological objective of the Directive ( i.e. the test
                                                                                     which the European Court has laid down in e.g.
Reference for a preliminary ruling from the                                          Commission v. Germany ('Leybucht Dykes') Case
Bundesgerichtshof by order of that court of 30 January                               57/89 for derogation from the requirements of
        1995 in the case of Siemens AG v. Henry Nold                                 Article 4 (4 )); or
                           ( Case C-42/95 )
                             ( 95/C 101/06 )                                   ( b ) they amount to imperative reasons of overriding
                                                                                     public interest such as might be taken into account
                                                                                     under Article 6 (4 ) of Council Directive 92/43/EEC
                                                                                     of 21 May 1992, on the conservation of natural
Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the                               habitats and of wild fauna and flora ( 2 ).
European Communities by an order of the Second Civil
Senate of the Bundesgerichtshof ( Federal Court ofJustice ) of
30 January 1995 , which was received at the Court Registry               t 1 ) OJ No L 103 , 25 . 4 . 1979 , p . 1 .
on 23 February 1995 , for a preliminary ruling in the case of            ( 2 ) OJ No L 206 , 22 . 7. 1992 , p . 7.
Siemens AG v. Henry Nold, on the following question:
Is it compatible with the Second Council Directive of
13 December 1976 i 1 ), in particular Article 29 ( 1 ) and (4 )
thereof, for the legality of a resolution of a general meeting
of shareholders relating to an increase in capital in return for         Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Tribunal de
contributions in kind while at the same withdrawing the                  Travail de Tournai (Fourth Chamber) by judgment of that
shareholders ' right of pre-emption to be determined on the              court of 14 February 1995 in the case of Institut National
basis of a substantive review in accordance with the                     d'Assurances Sociales pour Travailleurs Indépendants
principles laid down in the Bundesgerichtshof's judgments                                      against Hans Kemmler
BGHZ 71 , 40 and BGHZ 83 , 319 ?
                                                                                                      Case C-53/95 )
                                                                                                      ( 95/C 101/08 )
(!) OJ No L 26 , 31 . 1 . 1977, p . 1 .
                                                                         Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the
                                                                         European Communities by a judgment of the Tribunal de
                                                                         Travail de Tournai ( Labour Court, Tournai, Belgium)