CELEX: 62017CA0151
Language: en
Date: 2018-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-151/17: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 November 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the High Court of Justice (England & Wales), Queen’s Bench Division (Administrative Court) — United Kingdom) — Swedish Match AB v Secretary of State for Health (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Approximation of laws — Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products — Directive 2014/40/EU — Article 1(c) and Article 17 — Prohibition on the placing on the market of tobacco products for oral use — Validity)

21.1.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 25/6
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 November 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the High Court of Justice (England & Wales), Queen’s Bench Division (Administrative Court) — United Kingdom) — Swedish Match AB v Secretary of State for Health
      (Case C-151/17) (1)
      
      ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Approximation of laws - Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products - Directive 2014/40/EU - Article 1(c) and Article 17 - Prohibition on the placing on the market of tobacco products for oral use - Validity))
      (2019/C 25/07)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Referring court
      
      High Court of Justice (England & Wales), Queen’s Bench Division (Administrative Court)
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Swedish Match AB
      
         Defendant: Secretary of State for Health
      
         Intervener: New Nicotine Alliance
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Consideration of the question referred has disclosed nothing capable of affecting the validity of Article 1(c) and Article 17 of Directive 2014/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products and repealing Directive 2001/37/EC.
      
         (1)  OJ C 161, 22.5.2017.