CELEX: 62018CA0569
Language: en
Date: 2019-10-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-569/18: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 17 October 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Caseificio Cirigliana Srl, Mail Srl, Sorì Italia Srl v Ministero delle Politiche agricole, alimentari e forestali, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Ministero della Salute (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 — Article 4(c) and Article 7(1)(e) — Quality schemes applicable to agricultural products and foodstuffs — Fair competition — PDO Mozzarella di Bufala Campana — Obligation to separate production areas for ‘PDO Mozzarella di Bufala Campana’)

16.12.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 423/15
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 17 October 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Caseificio Cirigliana Srl, Mail Srl, Sorì Italia Srl v Ministero delle Politiche agricole, alimentari e forestali, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Ministero della Salute
      (Case C-569/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 - Article 4(c) and Article 7(1)(e) - Quality schemes applicable to agricultural products and foodstuffs - Fair competition - PDO Mozzarella di Bufala Campana - Obligation to separate production areas for ‘PDO Mozzarella di Bufala Campana’)
      (2019/C 423/18)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Referring court
      
      Consiglio di Stato
      
         Parties in the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellants: Caseificio Cirigliana Srl, Mail Srl, Sorì Italia Srl
      
         Respondents: Ministero delle Politiche agricole, alimentari e forestali, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Ministero della Salute
      
         Intervener: Consorzio di Tutela del Formaggio Mozzarella di Bufala Campana
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 4(c) and Article 7(1)(e) of Regulation No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs, and the product specification for ‘PDO Mozzarella di Bufala Campana’ must be interpreted as not precluding national rules, such as those at issue in the main proceedings, which provide that ‘PDO Mozzarella di Bufala Campana’ must be produced in areas exclusively designated for the production of that cheese, including within one set of premises, in which the holding and storage of milk originating from farms that are not subject to the monitoring system for the protected designation of origin (PDO) ‘Mozzarella di Bufala Campana’ is prohibited, if those rules are a necessary and proportionate means of safeguarding the quality of that product or ensuring that the specification for that PDO is monitored, which is a matter for the referring court to verify.
      
         (1)  OJ C 436, 3.11.2018.