CELEX: 62019CA0526
Language: en
Date: 2020-10-01 00:00:00
Title: Case C-526/19: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 1 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Entoma SAS v Ministre de l’Économie et des Finances, Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Food safety — Novel foods and novel food ingredients — Regulation (EC) No 258/97 — Article 1(2)(e) — Concept of ‘food ingredients isolated from animals’ — Placing on the market — Whole insects intended for human consumption)

23.11.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 399/20
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 1 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Entoma SAS v Ministre de l’Économie et des Finances, Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation
      (Case C-526/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Food safety - Novel foods and novel food ingredients - Regulation (EC) No 258/97 - Article 1(2)(e) - Concept of ‘food ingredients isolated from animals’ - Placing on the market - Whole insects intended for human consumption)
      (2020/C 399/27)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Referring court
      
      Conseil d’État
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Entoma SAS
      
         Defendants: Ministre de l’Économie et des Finances, Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 1(2)(e) of Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 1997 concerning novel foods and novel food ingredients, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009, must be interpreted as meaning that foods consisting of whole animals intended to be consumed as such, including whole insects, do not fall within the scope of that regulation.
      
         (1)  OJ C 328, 30.9.2019.