Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 15 September 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État – France) – Fédération des entreprises de la beauté v Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM)
(Case C-4/21) 1
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Cosmetic products – Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 – Article 27 – Safeguard clause – Article 27(1) – Scope – Provisional national safeguard measures – General measure – Application to a category of cosmetic products containing the same substance – Individual measure – Application to an identified cosmetic product – Provisional national measure imposing certain labelling requirements on a category of leave-on products containing phenoxyethanol)
Language of the case: French
Referring court
Conseil d’État
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Fédération des entreprises de la beauté
Defendant: Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM)
Operative part of the judgment
Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on cosmetic products must be interpreted as not allowing the competent authority of a Member State to adopt general provisional measures applying to a category of products containing the same substance.
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1 OJ C 79, 8.3.2021.