CELEX: 62012CA0101
Language: en
Date: 2013-10-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-101/12: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 17 October 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart — Germany) — Herbert Schaible v Land Baden-Württemberg (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Agriculture — Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 — System for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals — Obligation of individual electronic identification — Obligation to keep a holding register — Validity — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Freedom to conduct a business — Proportionality — Equal treatment)

14.12.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 367/7
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 17 October 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart — Germany) — Herbert Schaible v Land Baden-Württemberg
   (Case C-101/12) (1)
   
   (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Agriculture - Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 - System for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals - Obligation of individual electronic identification - Obligation to keep a holding register - Validity - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Freedom to conduct a business - Proportionality - Equal treatment)
   2013/C 367/11
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Herbert Schaible
   
      Defendant: Land Baden-Württemberg
   
      Re:
   
   Request for a preliminary ruling — Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart — Validity of Articles 3(1), 4(2), 5(1) and 9(3), first subparagraph, of Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC (OJ 2004 L 5, p. 8), as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1560/2007 of 17 December 2007 (OJ 2007 L 340, p. 25), from the point of view of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in particular Articles 15(1) and 16 — Proportionality of the system of individual identification of ovine and caprine animals
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The consideration of the questions raised has disclosed no factor of such a kind as to affect the validity of Articles 3(1), 4(2), 5(1) and the first subparagraph of Article 9(3) and point B(2) of the Annex to Council Regulation No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 933/2008 of 23 September 2008.
   
      (1)  OJ C 133, 5.5.2012.