CELEX: 62014CA0468
Language: en
Date: 2015-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-468/14: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 16 July 2015 — European Commission v Kingdom of Denmark (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2001/37/EC — Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products — Articles 2(4) and 8 — Prohibition on the sale of tobacco for oral use — Loose ‘Snus’ (oral tobacco))

21.9.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 311/12
            
         Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 16 July 2015 — European Commission v Kingdom of Denmark
   (Case C-468/14) (1)
   
   ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2001/37/EC - Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products - Articles 2(4) and 8 - Prohibition on the sale of tobacco for oral use - Loose ‘Snus’ (oral tobacco)))
   (2015/C 311/13)
   Language of the case: Danish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: C. Cattabriga and M. Clausen, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Denmark (represented by: C. Thorning and M. Wolff, acting as Agents)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               declares that, by having continued to authorise the sale of loose ‘snus’ (oral tobacco), the Kingdom of Denmark has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 2(4) in conjunction with Article 8 of Directive 2001/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2001 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products, and
            
         
               2)
            
            
               orders Kingdom of Denmark to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 439, 8.12.2014.