CELEX: 62017CA0425
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-425/17: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 17 October 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Germany) — Günter Hartmann Tabakvertrieb GmbH & Co. KG v Stadt Kempten, (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Approximation of laws — Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products — Directive 2014/40/EU — Ban on placing tobacco for oral use on the market — Definitions of ‘chewing tobacco’ and ‘tobacco for oral use’ — Paste composed of finely ground tobacco (Thunder Chewing Tobacco) and porous cellulose sachet portions filled with finely ground tobacco (Thunder Frosted Chewing Bags))

17.12.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 455/14
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 17 October 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Germany) — Günter Hartmann Tabakvertrieb GmbH & Co. KG v Stadt Kempten,
      (Case C-425/17) (1)
      
      ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Approximation of laws - Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products - Directive 2014/40/EU - Ban on placing tobacco for oral use on the market - Definitions of ‘chewing tobacco’ and ‘tobacco for oral use’ - Paste composed of finely ground tobacco (Thunder Chewing Tobacco) and porous cellulose sachet portions filled with finely ground tobacco (Thunder Frosted Chewing Bags)))
      (2018/C 455/21)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Günter Hartmann Tabakvertrieb GmbH & Co. KG
      
         Defendant: Stadt Kempten
      
         Intervener: Landesanwaltschaft Bayern
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 2(8) of Directive 2014/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products and repealing Directive 2001/37/EC, read in conjunction with Article 2(6) of that directive, must be interpreted as meaning that only tobacco products which can be consumed in the proper sense only by chewing constitute tobacco products intended to be chewed within the meaning of those provisions, which it is for the national court to determine on the basis of all the relevant objective characteristics of the products concerned, such as their composition, their consistency, their method of dispensation and, where appropriate, their actual use by consumers.
      
         (1)  OJ C 347, 16.10.2017.