Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2005:477
Date: 2005-07-14
Language of the case: German
Court formation: Third Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries;Consumer protection;Approximation of laws;Eggs and poultry
Concepts: Domestic market
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Germany

Summary of the Judgment Agriculture — Common organisation of the markets — Poultrymeat — Marketing standards — Regulation of indications concerning the type of farming on labelling — Prohibition on including the wording ‘reared under controlled conditions’ on the labelling of products (Commission Regulation No 1538/91, Art. 10(1)) Article 10(1) of Regulation No 1538/91 introducing detailed rules for implementing Regulation No 1906/90 on certain marketing standards for poultrymeat, as amended by Regulation No 1321/2002, must be interpreted as meaning that the wording ‘reared under controlled conditions’ (‘kontrollierte Aufzucht’) constitutes an indication of the type of farming and for that reason that article does not allow an undertaking to include that wording on the labelling of a product falling within the scope of that regulation. (see para. 17, operative part)