Referral to the CJEU from the Supreme Court of Denmark (Højesteret, Danmarks Domstole).
In her Opinion delivered this week in Case C-311/22, Moesgaard Meat 2012, Advocate General Kokott provided her conclusions on ‘how’ slaughterhouses should calculate the weight of animals it slaughters on a daily basis, to determine their compliance with national implementing measures, in line with the Industrial Emissions Directive (Directive 2010/75/EU).
She considers, in some detail, how much ‘dissection’ of animals has to occur, to determine the daily capacity of individual slaughterhouses.
In light of the physical, technical, and legal constraints that might be imposed on such calculations, she affords the Court of Justice guidance on how to answer the referred questions of the Supreme Court, given the underlying criminal proceedings in Denmark.
More graphically put, though thankfully only through the use of words, her Opinion in Case C-311/22, Moesgaard Meat 2012 is available at the following link: https://lnkd.in/eXzcAsUX
The judgment of the First Chamber of the Court of Justice (Court of Justice of the European Union) will be delivered later in 2023.
Graham Butler