Monitoring References to the Court of Justice of the European Union
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43 case reports
France has banned nicotine pouches outright, from sale and use to manufacture and export. The Conseil d'État upheld the ban on selling and using them, but asks the Court of Justice whether France may also forbid producing, transporting and exporting pouches meant only for sale in other Member States.
France recommends the Nutri-Score, which sums up a food's nutritional value in a letter and a colour. Lactalis challenges the 2025 version, under which milk drinks are scored as beverages. The Conseil d'État asks whether the Food Information Regulation allows a Member State to recommend a label that does not set out energy and nutrients, and one that takes account of fruit, vegetables and sweeteners.
A Czech customs dispute over suspected imports of Chinese-origin goods turns on two OLAF missions to Taiwan, in 2013 and 2014. The Czech Supreme Administrative Court asks whether OLAF had a legal basis to investigate there, whether its reports are valid, and how much they can prove when their content cannot be verified.
By judgment of 14 March 2018 (ECLI:EU:C:2018:181) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “1.
By judgment of 7 December 2017 (ECLI:EU:C:2017:947) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 1(1) and Article 1(2)(a) of Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices, as amended by Directive 2007/47/EC of the…
By judgment of 23 January 2018 (ECLI:EU:C:2018:26) the Court held that the European Firearms Pass provisions of the Firearms Directive do not apply to the territory of Gibraltar, as the Directive's travel-facilitation rules concern the free movement of…
On 27 September 2017 the Court ruled (ECLI:EU:C:2017:724) that where co-defendants in different Member States are sued over the same supply chain, a Community-design court can grant remedies with EU-wide effect against both.
A company has made a dairy product for patients with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. The company believes that this makes it a ‘food for a special medical purpose’ within the EU Commission’s Directive 1999/21/EC. However, in the United Kingdom, the Secretary of State for Health believes that that…
By judgment of 19 January 2017 (ECLI:EU:C:2017:26) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and…
By judgment of 26 October 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:801) the Court held that a product whose essential manufacturing steps are carried out in a pharmacy as part of its normal business, producing up to 100 dispensing-ready packages a day, is not prepared…
By judgment of 13 October 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:770) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 9 of Directive 98/79/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 October 1998 on in vitro diagnostic medical devices must be…
By judgment of 10 November 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:857) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 7(2) of Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States…
By judgment of 27 October 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:813) the Court held that Articles 34 and 36 TFEU preclude national rules reserving parallel imports of veterinary medicinal products to authorised wholesalers, thereby excluding farmers who import for their…
By judgment of 19 October 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:776) the Court held that Germany's system of fixed prices for prescription-only medicines, as applied to mail-order pharmacies established in other Member States, is a measure having equivalent effect contrary…
By judgment of 22 September 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:718) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 1(3)(b) of Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 March 2000 on the approximation of the laws of the…
By judgment of 14 July 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:563) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on…
By judgment of 21 September 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:703) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 18(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on cosmetic products must be…
By judgment of 27 October 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:821) the Court held that it has jurisdiction to interpret harmonised technical standards adopted under the Construction Products Directive — EN 13242 forms part of EU law for preliminary-ruling purposes —…
On 4 May 2016 the Court upheld the Second Tobacco Products Directive in full (ECLI:EU:C:2016:325): the menthol ban, the labelling and standardisation rules, the leeway for further national packaging measures and the specific e-cigarette regime of Article…
By judgment of 1 October 2015 (ECLI:EU:C:2015:644) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “1.
By judgment of 23 November 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:890) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “1.
By judgment of 9 November 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:839) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 1(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 1997 concerning novel foods and novel food…
On 23 December 2015 the Court ruled (ECLI:EU:C:2015:845) that Scottish minimum unit pricing for alcohol restricts the free movement of goods and may be justified on health grounds only if less trade-restrictive means — notably taxation — cannot achieve the…
By judgment of 24 June 2015 (ECLI:EU:C:2015:414) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “The notion of ‘natural mineral water from one and the same spring’ contained in Article 8(2) of Directive 2009/54/EC of the European Parliament and of…
By judgment of 17 December 2015 (ECLI:EU:C:2015:823) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “1.
By judgment of 25 June 2015 (ECLI:EU:C:2015:420) the Court held that where an EU trade mark and a contested sign contain a dominant Arabic word in both Latin and Arabic script, and the relevant public has a basic knowledge of written Arabic, the meaning…
By judgment of 4 June 2015 (ECLI:EU:C:2015:361) the Court held that food labelling may not mislead the consumer by suggesting through images the presence of an ingredient the product does not contain — and a correct ingredients list on the side does not…
By judgment of 20 November 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:2388) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “1. The Combined Nomenclature in Annex 1 to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the…
By judgment of 11 June 2015 (ECLI:EU:C:2015:385) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “The Combined Nomenclature in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common…
On 5 March 2015 the Court ruled (ECLI:EU:C:2015:148) that where products in the same group have a potential defect, all products of that group may be classified as defective without proving the defect in each individual device — and that the costs of…
By judgment of 12 February 2015 (ECLI:EU:C:2015:87) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “1.
By judgment of 10 July 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:2060) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 1(2)(b) of Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal…
By judgment of 11 September 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:2209) the Court held that the E-Commerce Directive covers an online newspaper remunerated by advertising, but that a publisher which knows of and controls the information it posts is not a "mere conduit",…
By judgment of 19 June 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:2012) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “1.
By judgment of 11 September 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:2192) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “1.
By judgment of 6 February 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:52) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “The Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Arab…
On 9 April 2014 the Court ruled (ECLI:EU:C:2014:244) that Regulation 1383/2003 does not preclude customs authorities themselves, absent any initiative by the rightholder, from initiating and conducting the proceedings to determine whether detained goods…
By judgment of 17 July 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:2082) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “1.
By judgment of 13 March 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:149) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “1.
By judgment of 12 December 2013 (ECLI:EU:C:2013:824) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “The Combined Nomenclature in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the…
By judgment of 11 July 2013 (ECLI:EU:C:2013:515) the Court held that indiscriminately levying blank media placed on the market for business purposes is permissible only if the scheme provides an effective and non-excessive right to reimbursement; a…
By judgment of 22 October 2013 (ECLI:EU:C:2013:675) the Court annulled the Council's decision on signing the European Convention on the legal protection of conditional-access services: the Convention falls principally within the common commercial policy,…
By judgment of 3 October 2013 (ECLI:EU:C:2013:626) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “1.