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C/2024/3727
(Case C-216/23, (1) Hauser Weinimport)
(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Approximation of laws - Agriculture - Definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of aromatised wine products - Regulation (EU) No 251/2014 - Article 3(4) - Aromatised wine-product cocktail - Definition - Concepts of ‘alcohol’ and of ‘flavouring foodstuffs’)
(C/2024/3727)
Language of the case: German
Applicant: Hauser Weinimport GmbH
Defendant: Freistaat Bayern
1.Article 3(4)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 251/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of aromatised wine products and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1601/91, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2021/2117 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 December 2021,
must be interpreted as meaning that the concept of ‘alcohol’, within the meaning of that provision, which cannot be added to a drink bearing the name ‘aromatised wine-product cocktail’, includes an alcoholic drink which, like beer, is not a grapevine product, within the meaning of Article 3(4)(a) of that regulation, irrespectively of whether the addition of such alcoholic drink may not lead to an increase in the alcoholic strength of such a cocktail compared to that of the grapevine product or products referred to in the latter provision.
2.Article 3(4)(c) of Regulation No 251/2014, as amended by Regulation 2021/2117,
must be interpreted as meaning that the prohibition on adding alcohol to an ‘aromatised wine-product cocktail’, laid down in that provision lays down, precludes an alcoholic drink which, like beer, is not one of the grapevine products referred to in that provision from being incorporated into such a cocktail, as a ‘flavouring foodstuff’ within the meaning of point 1(b)(ii) of Annex I to that regulation.
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(1) OJ C 271, 31.7.2023.
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3727/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
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