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Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 1 October 2020

Groupe Lactalis v Premier ministre and Others

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État

Reference for a preliminary ruling – Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 – Provision of food information to consumers – Article 9(1)(i) and Article 26(2)(a) – Mandatory indication of the country of origin or place of provenance of foods – Failure to indicate which might mislead the consumer – Article 38(1) – Matters specifically covered by the harmonisation – Article 39(2) – Adoption of national measures providing for additional mandatory particulars concerning the country of origin or place of provenance of specific types or categories of foods – Conditions – Existence of a proven link between one or several qualities of the foods concerned and their origin or provenance – Concepts of ‘proven link’ and ‘qualities’ – Evidence that the majority of consumers attach significant value to the provision of that information – National measure providing for the mandatory indication of the national, European or non-European origin of milk

Case C-485/18

Documents in the Case

Document

Date

Name of the parties

Subject-matter

Curia

EUR-Lex

Autres Liens

Judgment (OJ)

06/11/2020

Groupe Lactalis

Approximation of laws

Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2020:763

01/10/2020

Groupe Lactalis

Approximation of laws

Application (OJ)

14/09/2018

Groupe Lactalis

Approximation of laws

Request for a preliminary ruling

24/07/2018

Groupe Lactalis

Approximation of laws

Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2020:592

16/07/2020

Groupe Lactalis

Approximation of laws

Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

not yet published (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.18 Food safety
      4.11.18.03 Foods and food supplements
        4.11.18.03.07 Labelling and marketing

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Regulation 2658/87 : paragraphs 27, 29
Regulation 1169/2011 : paragraph 21
Regulation 1169/2011 -A01P1 : paragraphs 4, 43
Regulation 1169/2011 -A03P1 : paragraphs 5, 43
Regulation 1169/2011 -A03P2 : paragraph 5
Regulation 1169/2011 -A07P1 : paragraphs 6, 41
Regulation 1169/2011 -A07P1LA : paragraph 48
Regulation 1169/2011 -A07P1LB : paragraph 48
Regulation 1169/2011 -A07P1LC : paragraph 48
Regulation 1169/2011 -A09 : paragraph 7
Regulation 1169/2011 -A09P1 : paragraph 8
Regulation 1169/2011 -A09P1LI : paragraph 26
Regulation 1169/2011 -A26 : paragraphs 1, 7, 9, 18, 20, 22, 25, 26, 33
Regulation 1169/2011 -A26P2 : paragraph 29
Regulation 1169/2011 -A26P2LA : paragraph 27
Regulation 1169/2011 -A26P2LB : paragraph 27
Regulation 1169/2011 -A38 : paragraphs 1, 10, 11, 18
Regulation 1169/2011 -A38P1 : paragraphs 20, 22, 23, 28, 33
Regulation 1169/2011 -A38P2 : paragraph 23
Regulation 1169/2011 -A39 : paragraphs 1, 10, 12, 18, 22, 23, 30, 33
Regulation 1169/2011 -A39P1 : paragraphs 20, 24, 31, 34, 46
Regulation 1169/2011 -A39P2 : paragraphs 20, 24, 34, 36, 40, 46 - 49, 51, 52
Regulation 1169/2011 -A39P2SNT1 : paragraph 35
Regulation 1169/2011 -A39P2SNT2 : paragraph 35
Regulation 1169/2011 -C1 : paragraphs 3, 43
Regulation 1169/2011 -C2 : paragraph 3
Regulation 1169/2011 -C3 : paragraphs 3, 43
Regulation 1169/2011 -C4 : paragraphs 3, 43
Regulation 1169/2011 -C29 : paragraph 3
Regulation 1169/2011 -N11 : paragraph 27
Court of Justice - Judgment C -113/15 -N69 : paragraph 44
Court of Justice - Judgment C -363/18 : paragraph 21
Court of Justice - Judgment C -363/18 -N52 : paragraph 43
Court of Justice - Judgment C -363/18 -N53 : paragraph 43

Operative part

Interprets : Regulation 1169/2011 -A26
Interprets : Regulation 1169/2011 -A38P1
Interprets : Regulation 1169/2011 -A39
Interprets : Regulation 1169/2011 -A39P1
Interprets : Regulation 1169/2011 -A39P2

Opinion

TFEU, Article 2 -P2 : points 24, 35
TFEU, Article 267 : point 70
Regulation 2658/87 -N11 : point 27
Regulation 2081/92 : point 3
Directive 98/58 -A01P1 : point 80
Directive 2000/13 -A03P1 : point 32
Regulation 178/2002 -A01P2 : point 80
Regulation 178/2002 -A03P15 : point 36
Regulation 178/2002 -A18P2 : point 36
Regulation 853/2004 -A10P3 : point 80
Regulation 764/2008 : point 35
Regulation 1169/2011 : points 28, 36
Regulation 1169/2011 -A01P1 : points 5, 47
Regulation 1169/2011 -A01P2 : point 35
Regulation 1169/2011 -A03P1 : points 6, 45, 75
Regulation 1169/2011 -A03P2 : points 6, 47
Regulation 1169/2011 -A04P2 : points 45, 47, 48
Regulation 1169/2011 -A09 : points 25, 32, 35
Regulation 1169/2011 -A09P1 : point 40
Regulation 1169/2011 -A09P1LI : points 7, 26
Regulation 1169/2011 -A10 : points 8, 25, 40
Regulation 1169/2011 -A10P2 : point 45
Regulation 1169/2011 -A26 : points 1, 9, 20 - 22, 26, 34, 38, 82
Regulation 1169/2011 -A26P2 : points 27, 35
Regulation 1169/2011 -A26P2LA : points 27, 37
Regulation 1169/2011 -A26P3 : point 27
Regulation 1169/2011 -A26P5 : points 23, 37
Regulation 1169/2011 -A26P7 : point 37
Regulation 1169/2011 -A38 : points 10, 11, 20, 30
Regulation 1169/2011 -A38P1 : point 21
Regulation 1169/2011 -A38P2 : point 29
Regulation 1169/2011 -A39 : points 1, 10, 12, 20, 22, 29, 31, 35, 38, 63, 64, 72, 81, 82
Regulation 1169/2011 -A39P1 : points 21, 39, 40, 42, 49
Regulation 1169/2011 -A39P2 : points 21, 39, 41, 43, 44, 47 - 52, 54, 55, 59, 61, 62, 71, 73 - 75, 79, 82
Regulation 1169/2011 -A39P2SNT2 : point 45
Regulation 1169/2011 -A45 : points 19, 35, 40
Regulation 1169/2011 -A45P3 : point 19
Regulation 1169/2011 -C4 : point 45
Regulation 1169/2011 -C6 : point 32
Regulation 1169/2011 -C9 : point 32
Regulation 1169/2011 -C13 : point 33
Regulation 1169/2011 -C14 : point 33
Regulation 1169/2011 -C16 : point 45
Regulation 1169/2011 -C18 : point 45
Regulation 1169/2011 -C32 : point 37
Regulation 1169/2011 -N3 : point 25
Regulation 1151/2012 : points 51, 53
Regulation 775/2018 : point 27
Court of Justice - Judgment C -113/80 : point 3
Court of Justice - Judgment C -207/83 -N17 : point 47
Court of Justice - Judgment C -321/94 -N45 : point 47
Court of Justice - Judgment C -478/07 -N114 : point 53
Court of Justice - Judgment C -145/10 -N105 : point 64
Court of Justice - Judgment C -145/10 -N106 : point 64
Court of Justice - Judgment C -35/13 -N29 : point 53
Court of Justice - Judgment C -35/13 -N30 : point 53
Court of Justice - Judgment C -35/13 -N31 : point 53
Court of Justice - Judgment C -62/14 -N25 : point 57
Court of Justice - Judgment C -547/14 -N165 : point 64
Court of Justice - Judgment C -342/17 -N52 : points 64, 69

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

24/07/2018

Date of the Opinion

16/07/2020

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

01/10/2020

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Information not available

Name of the parties

Groupe Lactalis

Notes on Academic Writings

Rigaux, Anne: Protection des consommateurs - Étiquetage du lait, Europe 2020, n° 12 Décembre, Comm. 401 (FR)
Rubino, Vito: Crónica de una muerte anunciada? The ECJ judgment Lactalis and what’s left of the «made in» question in the European Union, Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo 2021 nº 68 p. 309-325 (EN, ES)
Schroeder, Werner: Nationale Herkunftsangaben auf Lebensmitteln und die LMIV : C-485/18, "Groupe Lactalis", Zeitschrift für das gesamte Lebensmittelrecht 2021 p. 754-770 (DE)
Blumann, Claude: Comment informer les consommateurs sur l'origine des produits alimentaires sans trop les renseigner, Revue trimestrielle de droit européen 2021 n° 3 p. 613-626 (FR)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Conseil d'État - France

Subject-matter

Approximation of laws
Agriculture and Fisheries
- Foodstuffs

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

troisième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Malenovský

Advocate General

Hogan

Language(s) of the Case

French

Language(s) of the Opinion

English