62024CJ0341_SUM
Case C‑341/24
Duca di Salaparuta SpA
v
Ministero dell’Agricoltura, della Sovranità alimentare e delle Foreste and Others,
(Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione)
Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 11 September 2025
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Agriculture – Common organisation of the market in wine – Community framework for the protection of wine names – Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 – Article 54 – Quality wines produced in specified regions (quality wines psr) – Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 – Article 43(2) and Article 51 – Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 – Article 118k(2) and Article 118s – Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 – Article 101(2) and Article 107 – Protection, under EU law, of quality wines psr recognised under national law – Conflict between a protected wine name and an earlier well-known mark containing a word identical to that name – Allegedly misleading name – Transitional regime – Automatic extension of protection – Complete nature of the system of protection – Legal certainty)
Judicial proceedings – Oral part of the procedure – No obligation to hold a hearing – Whether justified – Whether sufficient information to give a ruling
(Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 47; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 76(2))
(see paragraph 50)
Action for annulment – Actionable measures – Definition – Measures producing binding legal effects – Publication of the list of quality wines produced in specified regions – Entry of a protected designation of origin in the electronic register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications for wine – Not included – Automatic nature of the protection of names
(Art. 263 TFEU; Council Regulations No 1493/1999, Art. 54(4) and (5), and No 479/2008, Art. 51(1))
(see paragraphs 55, 56)
Agriculture – Common organisation of the markets – Wine – Designation and presentation of wines – Protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications – Quality wines produced in specified regions – Transitional arrangements for the automatic protection of such wines recognised in national law – Conflict between a wine name protected under those rules and earlier well-known trade marks containing words identical to that name – Legislation applicable
(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1308/2013, Arts 101(2) and 107; Council Regulations No 1493/1999, Art. 54(4) and (5), and Annex VII, Section (F)(2), second and third subparas, No 1234/2007, Arts 118k and 118s and No 479/2008, recital 36 and Arts 43(2) and 51)
(see paragraphs 63, 64, 66-69, 74-76, 79, 86, 88, 95, operative part)
See the text of the decision.