Reports of Cases
2004 I-02263
Subject-matter
Preliminary ruling ─ Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf ─ Interpretation of Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1768/95 implementing rules on the agricultural exemption provided for in Article 14(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 on Community plant variety rights ─ "Organisation of holders", "collectively by several holders" ─ Whether a limited company may act in its own name in the interests of (i) its shareholders (ii) members of an association which is a shareholder or (iii) third parties (neither members nor shareholders) who have given it a mandate (for remuneration); Interpretation of the sixth indent of Article 14(3) of Council Regulation No 2100/94 and Article 8 of Commission Regulation No 1768/95 ─ Conditions for holders to be entitled to request information from farmers in the absence of evidence of use within the meaning of Article 13(2) of Regulation No 2100/94.
Systematic classification scheme
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B-11.09 Protection of new plant varieties
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B European Community (EEC/EC)
B-11 Approximation of laws
B-11.09 Protection of new plant varieties
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B-11.09 Protection of new plant varieties
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B European Community (EEC/EC)
B-11 Approximation of laws
B-11.09 Protection of new plant varieties
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Citations of case-law or legislation
References in grounds of judgment
Operative part
Opinion
Dates
Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings
Date of the Opinion
Date of the hearing
Information not available
Date of delivery
11/03/2004
References
Publication in the Official Journal
Application: OJ C 200 from 14.07.2001, p.47
Judgment: OJ C 94 from 17.04.2004, p.1
Name of the parties
Saatgut-Treuhandverwaltungsgesellschaft
Notes on Academic Writings
- Ruzek, Vincent: Chronique de jurisprudence communautaire agricole (2004-2005), Revue de droit rural 2007 nº 350 p.24-25
Procedural Analysis Information
Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling
Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf - Germany
Subject-matter
- Agriculture and Fisheries
- - Plant varieties
- Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Provisions of national law referred to
Sortenschutzgesetz (SortSchG), Paragraph 10a Rechtsberatungsgesetz (RBerG), Art. 1 Paragraph 7
Provisions of international law referred to
Information not available
Procedure and result
- Reference for a preliminary ruling
Formation of the Court
cinquième chambre (Cour)
Judge-Rapporteur
von Bahr
Advocate General
Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer
Language(s) of the Case
Language(s) of the Opinion