30.5.2022 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 213/30 |
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (France) lodged on 10 March 2022 –Saint-Louis Sucre v Premier ministre, Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation, SICA des betteraviers d’Étrépagny
(Case C-183/22)
(2022/C 213/41)
Language of the case: French
Referring court
Conseil d’État
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Saint-Louis Sucre
Defendants: Premier ministre, Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation, SICA des betteraviers d’Étrépagny
Questions referred
1. | Must the rule set out in [the French version of] Article 153(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of 17 December 2013, (1) according to which the statutes of a producer organisation require its members to ‘be members of only one producer organisation for any given product of the holding’, be interpreted as applying only to producer members? |
2. | In order to ensure compliance with the principle set out in Article 153(2)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, according to which the producer members of a producer organisation must scrutinise democratically their organisation and its decisions:
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(1) Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ 2013 L 347, p. 671).