CELEX: 62017CA0462
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-462/17: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 25 October 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Hamburg — Germany) — Tänzer & Trasper GmbH v Altenweddinger Geflügelhof Kommanditgesellschaft (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 – Spirit drinks – Definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications – Category 41 of Annex II – Egg liqueur – Definition – Exhaustive nature of the permissible components)

7.1.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 4/7
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 25 October 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Hamburg — Germany) — Tänzer & Trasper GmbH v Altenweddinger Geflügelhof Kommanditgesellschaft
      (Case C-462/17) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Approximation of laws - Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 - Spirit drinks - Definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications - Category 41 of Annex II - Egg liqueur - Definition - Exhaustive nature of the permissible components)
      (2019/C 4/09)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Landgericht Hamburg
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Tänzer & Trasper GmbH
      
         Defendant: Altenweddinger Geflügelhof Kommanditgesellschaft
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Category 41 of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 on the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of spirit drinks and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1576/89, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008, must be interpreted as meaning that, in order to be able to bear the sales denomination ‘egg liqueur’, a spirit drink cannot contain ingredients other than those mentioned in that provision.
      
         (1)  OJ C 347, 16.10.2017.