27.8.2018

Official Journal of the European Union

C 301/9

(Case C-339/17) (1)

((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Textile fibre names and related labelling and marking requirements - Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 - Articles 7 and 9 - Pure textile products - Multi-fibre textile products - Labelling or marking methods))

(2018/C 301/11)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Verein für lauteren Wettbewerb eV

Defendant: Princesport GmbH

Operative part of the judgment

1.Article 4 and the first subparagraph of Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011 on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products and repealing Council Directive 73/44/EEC and Directives 96/73/EC and 2008/121/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, read in conjunction with recital 10 of that regulation, must be interpreted to the effect that they impose a general labelling or marking obligation in order to give an indication of the fibre composition of all textile products, including those textile products defined in Article 7 of that regulation.

2.Article 7(1) of Regulation No 1007/2011 must be interpreted to the effect that it does not impose a requirement to use, on the label or marking of a pure textile product, one of the three terms referred to in that provision, that is to say, ‘100 %’, ‘pure’ or ‘all’. When those terms are used, they may be used jointly.

3.Article 9(1) of Regulation No 1007/2011 must be interpreted to the effect that the obligation to indicate, on the label or marking, the name and percentage by weight of all the constituent fibres of the textile product in question does not apply to pure textile products.

(1) OJ C 283, 28.8.2017.