Case C-13/23,  cdVet Naturprodukte: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 February 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Osnabrück – Germany) – cdVet Naturprodukte GmbH v Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (LA-VES) (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Food safety – Feed additives – Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 – Authorisation procedure – Ban on placing on the market without authorisation – Status of existing products – Validity in the light of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Freedom to conduct a business – Right to property – Principle of proportionality – Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/758 – Withdrawal from the market of grapefruit extract – Feedingstuffs containing grapefruit seed and grapefruit peel extract)
Date: 2024-02-29
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: animal feedingstuffs, citrus fruit, food additive, food safety, market approval, ownership, principle of proportionality, right of establishment, withdrawal from the market








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C/2024/2580


22.4.2024






Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 February 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Osnabrück – Germany) – cdVet Naturprodukte GmbH v Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (LA-VES)


(Case C-13/23,
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cdVet Naturprodukte)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Food safety - Feed additives - Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 - Authorisation procedure - Ban on placing on the market without authorisation - Status of existing products - Validity in the light of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Freedom to conduct a business - Right to property - Principle of proportionality - Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/758 - Withdrawal from the market of grapefruit extract - Feedingstuffs containing grapefruit seed and grapefruit peel extract)
(C/2024/2580)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Verwaltungsgericht Osnabrück

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: cdVet Naturprodukte GmbH

Defendant: Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (LA-VES)

Operative part of the judgment







1.


Consideration of the first question has disclosed no factor of such a kind as to affect the validity of Article 3(1)(a) and Article 10(1)(a), (2) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 on additives for use in animal nutrition, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2019/1381 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019, having regard to Article 16, Article 17(1) and Article 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.










2.


Part 1 of Chapter I.A of Annex I to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/758 of 7 May 2021 on the status of certain products as feed additives within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and on the withdrawal from the market of certain feed additives
must be interpreted as meaning that the definition of ‘grapefruit extract’, within the meaning of that provision, covers an extract produced from grapefruit seeds and grapefruit peel.






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            OJ C 127, 11.4.2023.


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