CELEX: 62012TA0017
Language: en
Date: 2014-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-17/12: Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2014  — Hagenmeyer and Hahn v Commission (Consumer protection — Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 — Health claims made on foods — Refusal to authorise a reduction of disease risk claim — Designation of a risk factor — Lawfulness of the procedure authorising reduction of disease risk claims — Action for annulment — Legal interest in bringing proceedings — Direct and individual concern — Admissibility — Proportionality — Obligation to state reasons)

24.6.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 194/21
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2014 — Hagenmeyer and Hahn v Commission
   (Case T-17/12) (1)
   
   ((Consumer protection - Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 - Health claims made on foods - Refusal to authorise a reduction of disease risk claim - Designation of a risk factor - Lawfulness of the procedure authorising reduction of disease risk claims - Action for annulment - Legal interest in bringing proceedings - Direct and individual concern - Admissibility - Proportionality - Obligation to state reasons))
   2014/C 194/26
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Moritz Hagenmeyer (Hamburg, Germany) and Andreas Hahn (Hanover, Germany) (represented by: T. Teufer, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Pignataro-Nolin and S. Grünheid, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervening party in support of the defendant: Council of the Euroepan Union (represented by: I. Šulce, Z. Kupčová and M. Simm, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment in part of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1170/2011 of 16 November 2011 refusing to authorise certain health claims made on foods and referring to the reduction of disease risk (OJ 2011 L 299, p. 1).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Moritz Hagenmeyer and Mr Andreas Hahn to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 89, 24.3.2012.