62023CJ0717_SUM
Case C‑717/23
Bundesminister für Soziales, Gesundheit, Pflege und Konsumentenschutz
v
MM
(Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof)
Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 15 May 2025
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products – Directive 2014/40/EU – Article 2(40) – Concept of ‘placing on the market’ – Article 23(2) – Enforcement – Scope – Placing on the market of tobacco products the packaging of which includes non-compliant elements – Supply of tobacco products by a wholesaler to a retail outlet – Fine imposed on the managing director of a company acting as a wholesaler)
Approximation of laws – Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products – Directive 2014/40 – Cooperation and enforcement – Scope – Obligation of the Member States to enforce the prohibition on the placing on the market of tobacco products which do not comply with the requirements relating to the presentation of those products – Not limited to the stage at which tobacco products are supplied by a retail outlet to the consumer
(European Parliament and Council Regulation 2019/1020, recitals 12, 14 and 43, and Art. 1; European Parliament and Council Directive 2014/40, Arts 2(40) and 23(2))
(see paragraphs 39-42, 45, 47, 50-52, operative part)
See the text of the decision.