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    Case C-231/18: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 7 February 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Oldenburg — Germany) — NK (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Transport — Road transport — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 — Obligation to use a tachograph — Exception for vehicles used for the carriage of live animals from farms to local markets and vice versa or from markets to local slaughterhouses)

    OJ C 131, 8.4.2019, p. 15–16 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

    8.4.2019   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    C 131/15


    Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 7 February 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Oldenburg — Germany) — NK

    (Case C-231/18) (1)

    (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Transport - Road transport - Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 - Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 - Obligation to use a tachograph - Exception for vehicles used for the carriage of live animals from farms to local markets and vice versa or from markets to local slaughterhouses)

    (2019/C 131/18)

    Language of the case: German

    Referring court

    Oberlandesgericht Oldenburg

    Parties to the main proceedings

    NK

    Other parties to the proceedings: Staatsanwaltschaft Oldenburg, Staatliches Gewerbeaufsichtsamt Oldenburg

    Operative part of the judgment

    The term ‘local markets’ in Article 13(1)(p) of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport and amending Council Regulations (EEC) No 3821/85 and (EC) No 2135/98 and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85, as amended by Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 February 2014, must be interpreted as referring neither to the transaction carried out between a livestock wholesaler and a farmer nor to the livestock wholesaler himself, so that the exception provided for in that provision cannot be extended to include vehicles transporting live animals directly from farms to local slaughterhouses.


    (1)  OJ C 221, 25.6.2018.


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