Jose Canovas Pardo (Community plant variety rights - Judgment)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Community plant variety rights – Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 – Article 96 – Calculation of the period of prescription for claims pursuant to Articles 94 and 95 – Point from which time starts to run – Date of grant of Community rights and of knowledge of the act and of the identity of the party liable – Date on which the course of action in question ceased – Repeated acts – Continuous acts – Restricted to acts carried out more than three years ago)

REQUEST for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court, Spain), made by decision of 7 March 2018, received at the Court on 9 March 2018, in the proceedings

composed of I. Ziemele (Rapporteur), President of the Sixth Chamber, acting as President of the Seventh Chamber, T. von Danwitz and A. Kumin, Judges,

– José Cánovas Pardo SL, by V. Venturini Medina, procurador, and by A. Scasso Veganzones, abogada,

– Club de Variedades Vegetales Protegidas, by P. Tent Alonso, V. Gigante Pérez, I. Pérez-Cabrero Ferrández and G. Navarro Pérez, abogados,