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Title: Case C-355/11: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 14 June 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — G. Brouwer v Staatssecretaris van Economische Zaken, Landbouw en Innovatie (Directive 91/629/EEC — Minimum standards for the protection of calves — Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 — Common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy — National legislation transposing Directive 91/629/EEC and declaring the management requirements provided for by that directive to be applicable to, inter alia, calves which are kept confined in the context of a dairy farming operation)
Date: 2012-06-14T02:00:00.000+02:00
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#### 28.7.2012   

EN

#### Official Journal of the European Union

#### C 227/6

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# Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 14 June 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — G. Brouwer v Staatssecretaris van Economische Zaken, Landbouw en Innovatie

(Case C-355/11) (<span class="super">1</span>)

(Directive 91/629/EEC - Minimum standards for the protection of calves - Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 - Common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy - National legislation transposing Directive 91/629/EEC and declaring the management requirements provided for by that directive to be applicable to, inter alia, calves which are kept confined in the context of a dairy farming operation)

2012/C 227/08

Language of the case: Dutch

## **Referring court**

College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven

## **Parties to the main proceedings**

*Appellant: G. Brouwer*

Respondent: Staatssecretaris van Economische Zaken, Landbouw en Innovatie

## **Re:**

Reference for a preliminary ruling — College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven — Interpretation of Council Directive 91/629/EEC of 19 November 1991 laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves (OJ 1991 L 340, p. 28) and of Articles 4 and 6 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) No 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001 — National legislation transposing the Directive by stating that the management requirements apply not only to calves confined for rearing and fattening, but also to calves confined for dairy farming

## **Operative part of the judgment**

Council Directive 91/629/EEC of 19 November 1991 laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 806/2003 of 14 April 2003, must be interpreted as meaning that the requirement, referred to in Article 4 of that directive, according to which the conditions relating to the rearing of calves must comply with the general provisions set out in the annex to that directive, including point 8 of that annex, which prohibits, subject to exceptions, the tethering of calves, applied to calves kept confined by a farmer in the context of a dairy farming operation for agricultural purposes.

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[^]: (<span class="super">1</span>) OJ C 282, 24.09.2011.

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