CELEX: 62006CO0421
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-08 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Third Chamber) of 8 November 2007. # Fratelli Martini & C. SpA and Cargill Srl v Ministero delle Politiche agricole e forestali and Others. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Consiglio di Stato - Italy. # First subparagraph of Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure - Judgment of the Court declaring a Community provision invalid - Obligations of the institutions - Animal health and public health requirements - Compound feedingstuffs for animals - Indication, on the label, of the percentages in weight of the raw materials present in the feedingstuff, with a tolerance of ± 15% of the declared value - Prohibition on misleading the consumer. # Case C-421/06.

Order of the Court (Third Chamber) of 8 November 2007 – Fratelli Martini and Cargill
      (Case C‑421/06)
      First subparagraph of Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure – Judgment of the Court declaring a Community provision invalid – Obligations of the institutions – Animal health and public health requirements – Compound feedingstuffs for animals – Indication, on the label, of the percentages in weight of the raw materials present in the feedingstuff, with a tolerance
         of ± 15% of the declared value – Prohibition on misleading the consumer
      
      1.                     Preliminary rulings – Answer clearly able to be deduced from case-law – Application of Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure
            (Rules of Procedure of the Court, Art. 104(3)) (see para. 20)
      2.                     Protection of public health – Compound feedingstuffs – Directive 2002/2 (Regulation of the European Parliament and of the
            Council No 178/2002, Arts 8 and 16; Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council 2002/2, Art. 1(4) (see para. 45,
            operative part 1)
      3.                     Protection of public health – Compound feedingstuffs – Directive 2002/2 (Arts 233 EC and 234 EC; Directive of the European
            Parliament and of the Council 2002/2, Art. 1(1)(b)) (see para. 63, operative part 2)
      Re: 
      
         Reference for a preliminary ruling – Consiglio di Stato – Effects of the judgment of the Court of Justice in Joined Cases
                  C-453/03, C-11/04, C 12/04 and C-194/04 (
               
               ABNA and Others
               ) by which Directive 2002/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 amending Council Directive
                  79/373/EEC on the circulation of compound feedingstuffs and repealing Commission Directive 91/357/EEC (OJ 2002 L 63, p. 23)
                  was declared partially invalid – Obligation for the institutions to adopt a new act.
               
            Operative part 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Article 1(4) of Directive 2002/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 amending Council Directive
                     79/373/EEC on the circulation of compound feedingstuffs and repealing Commission Directive 91/357/EEC, which lays down an
                     obligation to indicate, on the labels of compound feedingstuffs for animals, the percentages in weight of the raw materials
                     of which the feedingstuff is composed with a tolerance of ± 15% of the declared value as regards those percentages, must be
                     interpreted as meaning that it does not contradict Articles 8 and 16 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament
                     and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European
                     Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety, which are intended, inter alia, to prevent the
                     labelling and presentation of feedingstuffs for animals from misleading the consumer.
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Since Article 1(1)(b) of Directive 2002/2 laid down an independent obligation bearing no relation to the obligations laid
                     down by the other provisions of that directive, the Court’s declaration, in its judgment of 6 December 2005 in Joined Cases
                     C‑453/03, C‑11/04, C‑12/04 and C‑194/04 ABNA and Others, that that provision was invalid did not create a legal vacuum or
                     a situation of inconsistency requiring the Community institutions to adopt the substantive amendments of Directive 2002/2.
                  
               
            In any event, the invalidity of a Community provision results directly from the judgment of the Court declaring that invalidity
         and it is for the national authorities and courts of the Member States to draw the consequences from that declaration in their
         national legal order.