CELEX: 62019CA0815
Language: en
Date: 2021-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-815/19: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 29 April 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Germany) — Natumi GmbH v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Agriculture and fisheries — Organic production and labelling of organic products — Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 — Article 19(2) — Articles 21 and 23 — Regulation (EC) No 889/2008 — Article 27(1) — Article 28 — Annex IX, point 1.3 — Processing of organic food — Non-organic ingredients of agricultural origin — Lithothamnium calcareum alga — Powder obtained by cleaning, grinding and drying the sediment of that alga — Classification — Use in organic foodstuffs for the purpose of calcium enrichment — Authorisation — Conditions)

12.7.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 278/8
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 29 April 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Germany) — Natumi GmbH v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen
      (Case C-815/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Agriculture and fisheries - Organic production and labelling of organic products - Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 - Article 19(2) - Articles 21 and 23 - Regulation (EC) No 889/2008 - Article 27(1) - Article 28 - Annex IX, point 1.3 - Processing of organic food - Non-organic ingredients of agricultural origin - Lithothamnium calcareum alga - Powder obtained by cleaning, grinding and drying the sediment of that alga - Classification - Use in organic foodstuffs for the purpose of calcium enrichment - Authorisation - Conditions)
      (2021/C 278/10)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Bundesverwaltungsgericht
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Natumi GmbH
      
         Defendant: Land Nordrhein-Westfalen
      
         intervener: Vertreter des Bundesinteresses beim Bundesverwaltungsgericht
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Commission Regulation (EC) No 889/2008 of 5 September 2008 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products with regard to organic production, labelling and control, as amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1584 of 22 October 2018, must be interpreted as precluding the use of a powder obtained from the cleaned, dried and ground sediment of the alga Lithothamnium calcareum, as a non-organic ingredient of agricultural origin, within the meaning of Article 28 of Regulation No 889/2008, as amended by Implementing Regulation 2018/1584, in the processing of organic foodstuffs, such as rice- and soya-based organic drinks, for the purpose of their enrichment with calcium.
      
         (1)  OJ C 77, 9.3.2020.