CELEX: 62012TA0334
Language: en
Date: 2015-06-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-334/12: Judgment of the General Court of 12 June 2015 — Plantavis and NEM v Commission and EFSA (Consumer protection — Health claims made on foods — Regulation (EU) No 432/2012 — Action for annulment — Regulatory act not entailing implementing measures — Direct concern — Admissibility — Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 — Plea of illegality — Register of health claims)

27.7.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 245/15
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 June 2015 — Plantavis and NEM v Commission and EFSA
   (Case T-334/12) (1)
   
   ((Consumer protection - Health claims made on foods - Regulation (EU) No 432/2012 - Action for annulment - Regulatory act not entailing implementing measures - Direct concern - Admissibility - Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 - Plea of illegality - Register of health claims))
   (2015/C 245/18)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Plantavis GmbH (Berlin, Germany); and NEM, Verband mittelständischer europäischer Hersteller und Distributoren von Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln & Gesundheitsprodukten eV (Laudert, Germany) (represented by: T. Büttner, lawyer)
   
      Defendants: European Commission (represented by: L. Pignataro-Nolin and S. Grünheid, acting as Agents); and European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (represented by: D. Detken, acting as Agent, and by R. Van der Hout and A. Köhler, lawyers)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant European Commission: European Parliament (represented by: J. Rodrigues and P. Schonard, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendants, European Commission and EFSA: Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Simm and I. Šulce, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment, first, of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods (OJ 2006 L 404, p. 9), and, secondly, of Commission Regulation (EU) No 432/2012 of 16 May 2012 establishing a list of permitted health claims made on foods, other than those referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children’s development and health (OJ 2012 L 136, p. 1), and of the Register of nutrition and health claims made on food, published on the website of the Commission.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Plantavis GmbH and NEM, Verband mittelständischer europäischer Hersteller und Distributoren von Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln & Gesundheitsprodukten eV to bear their own costs and, in addition, to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA);
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 311, 13.10.2012.