CELEX: 62014CA0448
Language: en
Date: 2016-11-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-448/14: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 9 November 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Germany) — Davitas GmbH v Stadt Aschaffenburg (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Novel foods and novel food ingredients — Regulation (EC) No 258/97 — Article 1(2)(c) — Concept of foods and food ingredients with a new primary molecular structure)

9.1.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 9 November 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Germany) — Davitas GmbH v Stadt Aschaffenburg
   (Case C-448/14) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Novel foods and novel food ingredients - Regulation (EC) No 258/97 - Article 1(2)(c) - Concept of foods and food ingredients with a new primary molecular structure))
   (2017/C 006/03)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Davitas GmbH
   
      Defendant: Stadt Aschaffenburg
   
      Intervener: Landesanwaltschaft Bayern
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 1(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 1997 concerning novel foods and novel food ingredients, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009, must be interpreted as meaning that the expression ‘new primary molecular structure’ relates to foods or food ingredients which were not used for human consumption in the territory of the European Union before 15 May 1997.
   
      (1)  OJ C 448, 15.12.2014.