CELEX: 62010CN0271
Language: en
Date: 2010-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Case C-271/10: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State (Belgium) lodged on 31 May 2010 — Vereniging van Educatieve en Wetenschappelijke Auteurs (VEWA) v Belgische Staat

28.8.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 234/22
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State (Belgium) lodged on 31 May 2010 — Vereniging van Educatieve en Wetenschappelijke Auteurs (VEWA) v Belgische Staat
   (Case C-271/10)
   ()
   2010/C 234/36
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Raad van State van België
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Vereniging van Educatieve en Wetenschappelijke Auteurs (VEWA)
   
      Defendant: Belgische Staat
   
      Question referred
   
   Does Article 5(1) of Council Directive 92/100/EEC (1) of 19 November 1992 on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property, now Article 6(1) of Directive 2006/115/EC (2) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property, according to which at least authors should obtain a remuneration for public lending, preclude a national provision which sets the remuneration at a flat rate of EUR 1 per adult per year and of EUR 0,5 per minor per year?
   
      (1)  OJ 1992 L 346, p. 61.
   
      (2)  OJ 2006 L 376, p. 28.