Asociaţia Crescătorilor de Vaci „Bălţată Românească” Tip Simmental

Provisional text JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Sixth Chamber)29 July 2024 (*)(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Common agricultural policy – Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 – Purebred breeding animals – Recognition procedure for breed societies – Approval procedure for breeding programmes – Possibility of refusing to approve a further breeding programme for the same breed, for the same territory, if such approval has potential to compromise an already existing breeding programme – Right of breeders of purebred animals to choose between the various existing breeding programmes)In Case C‑286/23,REQUEST for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Curtea de Apel Braşov (Court of Appeal, Brașov, Romania), made by decision of 10 April 2023, received at the Court on 3 May 2023, in the proceedings Asociaţia Crescătorilor de Vaci ‘Bălţată Românească’ Tip Simmentalv Genetica din Transilvania Cooperativă Agricolă,Agenţia Naţională pentru Zootehnie ‘Professor G. K. Constantinescu’,THE COURT (Sixth Chamber),composed of T. von Danwitz, President of the Chamber, P. G. Xuereb (Rapporteur) and A. Kumin, Judges,Advocate General: J. Richard de la Tour,Registrar: A. Calot Escobar,having regard to the written procedure,after considering the observations submitted on behalf of:–        Asociaţia Crescătorilor de Vaci ‘Bălţată Românească’ Tip Simmental, by N.-G. Comşa-Fulga, avocată,–        Genetica din Transilvania Cooperativă Agricolă, by A.-A. Arseni, D. Dobrev and L. Dobrinescu,...