CELEX: 62018CA0098
Language: en
Date: 2019-05-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-98/18: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 2 May 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — T. Boer & Zonen BV v Staatssecretaris van Economische Zaken (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Protection of health — Hygiene package — Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 — Hygiene of food of animal origin — Rules for food business operators — Specific requirements — Meat of domestic ungulates — Storage and transport — Requirements for the temperature of the meat)

1.7.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 220/5
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 2 May 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — T. Boer & Zonen BV v Staatssecretaris van Economische Zaken
      (Case C-98/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Protection of health - Hygiene package - Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 - Hygiene of food of animal origin - Rules for food business operators - Specific requirements - Meat of domestic ungulates - Storage and transport - Requirements for the temperature of the meat)
      (2019/C 220/07)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: T. Boer & Zonen BV
      
         Defendant: Staatssecretaris van Economische Zaken
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Annex III, Section I, Chapter VII, points 1 and 3, to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin must be interpreted as meaning that the chilling of meat after slaughter must be carried out in the slaughterhouse itself until the meat has reached a temperature throughout of not more than 7 oC before any loading of the meat into a refrigerated truck.
      
         (1)  OJ C 152, 30.4.2018.