CELEX: 62015CA0019
Language: en
Date: 2016-07-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-19/15: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 July 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht München I — Germany) — Verband Sozialer Wettbewerb eV v Innova Vital GmbH (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Consumer protection — Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 — Nutrition and health claims made on foods — Article 1(2) — Scope — Foods to be delivered as such to the final consumer — Claims made in a commercial communication addressed exclusively to health professionals)

12.9.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 335/10
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 July 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht München I — Germany) — Verband Sozialer Wettbewerb eV v Innova Vital GmbH
   (Case C-19/15) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Consumer protection - Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 - Nutrition and health claims made on foods - Article 1(2) - Scope - Foods to be delivered as such to the final consumer - Claims made in a commercial communication addressed exclusively to health professionals))
   (2016/C 335/13)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Landgericht München I
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Verband Sozialer Wettbewerb eV
   
      Defendant: Innova Vital GmbH
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 1(2) 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, as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1047/2012 of 8 November 2012, must be interpreted as meaning that nutrition or health claims made in a commercial communication on a food which is intended to be delivered as such to the final consumer, if that communication is addressed not to the final consumer, but exclusively to health professionals, falls within the scope of that regulation.
   
      (1)  OJ C 127, 20.4.2015.