CELEX: 62014CA0358
Language: en
Date: 2016-05-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-358/14: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 4 May 2016 — Republic of Poland v European Parliament, Council of the European Union (Action for annulment — Approximation of laws — Directive 2014/40/EU — Article 2(25), Article 6(2)(b), Article 7(1) to (5), the first sentence of Article 7(7), Article 7(12) to (14) and Article 13(1)(c) — Validity — Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products — Prohibition on the placing on the market of tobacco products with characterising flavours — Tobacco products containing menthol — Legal basis — Article 114 TFEU — Principle of proportionality — Principle of subsidiarity)

4.7.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 243/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 4 May 2016 — Republic of Poland v European Parliament, Council of the European Union
   (Case C-358/14) (1)
   
   ((Action for annulment - Approximation of laws - Directive 2014/40/EU - Article 2(25), Article 6(2)(b), Article 7(1) to (5), the first sentence of Article 7(7), Article 7(12) to (14) and Article 13(1)(c) - Validity - Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products - Prohibition on the placing on the market of tobacco products with characterising flavours - Tobacco products containing menthol - Legal basis - Article 114 TFEU - Principle of proportionality - Principle of subsidiarity))
   (2016/C 243/06)
   Language of the case: Polish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Republic of Poland (represented by: B. Majczyna and M. Szwarc, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Romania (represented by: R.-H. Radu, D.M. Bulancea and A. Vacaru, Agents)
   
      Defendants: European Parliament (represented by: L. Visaggio, J. Rodrigues and A. Pospíšilová Padowska, Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: O. Segnana, J. Herrmann, K. Pleśniak and M. Simm, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendants: Ireland (represented by: J. Quaney and A. Joyce, Agents, and by E. Barrington SC and J. Cooke SC and E. Carolan, Barrister-at-Law), French Republic (represented by: D. Colas and S. Ghiandoni, Agents), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: V. Kaye, C. Brodie and M. Holt, Agents, and by I. Rogers QC and S. Abram and E. Metcalfe, Barristers), European Commission (represented by: M. Van Hoof, C. Cattabriga and M. Owsiany-Hornung, Agents)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Poland to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Ireland, the French Republic, Romania, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the European Commission to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 315, 15.9.2014.