CELEX: C2003/112/01
Language: en
Date: 2003-05-10 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 20 March 2003 in Case C-3/00: Kingdom of Denmark v Commission of the European Communities (Approximation of laws — Directive 95/2/EC — Use of sulphites, nitrites and nitrates as food additives — Protection of health — Stricter national provisions — Conditions of application of Article 95(4) EC — Principle of the right to be heard)

10.5.2003               EN                           Official Journal of the European Union                                                  C 112/1
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                                                      COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                               COURT OF JUSTICE
                 JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                             Denmark concerning the use of sulphites, nitrites and nitrates
                                                                                   in foodstuffs in so far as it rejects those national provisions
                                                                                   relating to the use of nitrites and nitrates in foodstuffs;
                         of 20 March 2003
                                                                             2.    Dismisses the remainder of the application;
in Case C-3/00: Kingdom of Denmark v Commission of                           3.    Orders the parties to pay their own costs;
                the European Communities (1)
                                                                             4.    Orders the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway to
(Approximation of laws — Directive 95/2/EC — Use of                                pay their own costs.
sulphites, nitrites and nitrates as food additives — Protection
of health — Stricter national provisions — Conditions of                     (1 ) OJ C 122 of 29.4.2000.
application of Article 95(4) EC — Principle of the right to
                              be heard)
                          (2003/C 112/01)
                   (Language of the case: Danish)                                              JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published                                  (Fifth Chamber)
                   in the European Court Reports)
                                                                                                      of 13 March 2003
                                                                             in Case C-156/00: Kingdom of the Netherlands v Com-
In Case C-3/00, Kingdom of Denmark (Agent: J. Molde)                                    mission of the European Communities (1)
supported by Republic of Iceland (Agent: H. S. Kristjánsson)
and Kingdom of Norway (Agent: B. B. Ekeberg) v Commission                    (Action for annulment of Commission Decision C(2000)
of the European Communities (Agents: M. Shotter and                          485 final — Remission of import duties — Inward pro-
H. C. Støvlbæk): Application for the annulment of Commission                 cessing — Lack of equivalence between Community products
Decision 1999/830/EC of 26 October 1999 on the national                                             and imported products)
provisions notified by the Kingdom of Denmark concerning
the use of sulphites, nitrites and nitrates in foodstuffs (OJ 1999                                      (2003/C 112/02)
L 329, p. 1), the Court, composed of: G. C. Rodríguez Iglesias,
President, J.-P. Puissochet, M. Wathelet and R. Schintgen
(Presidents of Chambers), C. Gulmann, D. A. O. Edward, A. La                                      (Language of the case: Dutch)
Pergola, P. Jann, V. Skouris, F. Macken, N. Colneric, S. von Bahr
and J. N. Cunha Rodrigues (Rapporteur), Judges; A. Tizzano,                  (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
Advocate General; H. von Holstein, Deputy Registrar, has                                         in the European Court Reports)
given a judgment on 20 March 2003, in which it:
1.    Annuls Commission Decision 1999/830/EC of 26 October                   In Case C-156/00, Kingdom of the Netherlands (Agent: initially
      1999 on the national provisions notified by the Kingdom of             M. A. Fierstra, and, subsequently, the former together with