Swedish Match, one of the biggest manufacturers of tobacco for oral use, raised the invalidity under EU law of the prohibition of snus in a challenge before a British court of the national transposition measure. Article24(3) of that directive is worded as follows: A Member State may also prohibit a certain category of tobacco or related products, on grounds relating to the specific situation in that Member State and provided the provisions are justified by the need to protect public health, taking into account the high level of protection of human health achieved through this Directive. R (on the application of A and B) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for Health (Respondent) Judgment date. That is not a necessary approach, as indicated by the fact that Directive 2014/40 itself leaves to the Member States a degree of discretion in the adoption of their legislation in relation to other tobacco products. It is apparent from the order for reference that Swedish Match claims that Article1(c) and Article17 of Directive 2014/40 are contrary to Articles34 and35 TFEU on the ground that those provisions are in breach of the principles of equal treatment and proportionality and of the obligation to state reasons. We help promote and protect these rights. Accordingly, the criterion to be applied is not whether a measure adopted in such an area was the only or the best possible measure, since its legality can be affected only if the measure is manifestly inappropriate having regard to the objective which the competent institutions are seeking to pursue (see, to that effect, judgment of 4May 2016, Pillbox 38, C477/14, EU:C:2016:324, paragraph49). Case C-210/03 -The Queen, on the application of: Swedish Match AB and Swedish Match UK Ltd v Secretary of State for Health Page contents Details Description Files Details Publication date 18 December 2004 Author Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety Description Judgment of the Court Files Education Sec. Following the delivery of those judgments, the EU legislature has not adopted any measure that permits tobacco products for oral use to be placed on the market in Member States subject to Article17 of Directive 2014/40. This right may also be called the right to free enterprise or economic freedom. Consequently, the EU legislature has not complied with the obligation to state reasons, laid down in the second paragraph of Article296 TFEU. In order to challenge the validity of Article1(c) and Article17 of Directive 2014/40 having regard to the principle of proportionality, Swedish Match and the NNA refer, as is stated in the order for reference, to recent scientific studies which, from their perspective, demonstrated that tobacco products for oral use, including snus, are less harmful than other tobacco products, that they are less addictive than the latter and that they facilitate the cessation of smoking. Article24(3) of Directive 2014/40 therefore concerns an aspect which is not covered by the harmonisation measures in that directive (judgment of 4May 2016, Philip Morris Brands and Others, C547/14, EU:C:2016:325, paragraph90). Reference for a preliminary ruling Approximation of laws Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products Directive 2014/40/EU Article 1(c) and Article 17 Prohibition on the placing on the market of tobacco products for oral use Validity. As regards the appropriateness of the prohibition on the placing on the market of tobacco products for oral use to attaining the objective of ensuring a high level of protection of public health, it must be recalled that that appropriateness cannot be assessed solely in relation to a single category of consumers (see, to that effect, judgment of 4May 2016, Philip Morris Brands and Others, C547/14, EU:C:2016:325, paragraph176). Directive 2001/37/EC [of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5June 2001 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products Commission statement (OJ 2001 L194 p.26)] reaffirmed that prohibition. Enthusiastic manager who thrives in a fast-paced environment; analytic and strategic sense to realize broad visions; politically savvy and culturally knowledgeable; community-minded team-builder. 87) In that regard, Article 52(1) of the Charter provides that any limitation on the exercise of the rights and freedoms recognised by the Charter must be provided for by law and must respect the essence of those rights and freedoms. Accordingly, since tobacco products for oral use had been the subject of a number of scientific studies, they could not, when Directive 2014/40 was adopted, be considered to be novel to the same extent as the novel tobacco products that are referred to in Article2(14) of that directive. 1 Eg Case C-210/03 Swedish Match AB and Swedish Match UK Ltd v Secretary of State for Health [2004] ECR I-11893. Use quotation marks to search for an "exact phrase". It was thus open to the EU legislature, in the exercise of that discretion, to proceed towards harmonisation only in stages and to require only the gradual abolition of unilateral measures adopted by the Member States (judgment of 4May 2016, Philip Morris Brands and Others, C547/14, EU:C:2016:325, paragraph63). In that action, Swedish Match challenges the validity, having regard to the principle of non-discrimination, of Article1(c) and Article17 of Directive 2014/40, by reason of the difference in treatment which those provisions establish between, on the one hand, tobacco products for oral use, whose placing on the market is prohibited, and, on the other hand, other smokeless tobacco products, novel tobacco products, cigarettes and other tobacco products for smoking, and electronic cigarettes, whose consumption is not prohibited. This is a list of experimental features that you can enable. Swedish Match challenged the ban of snus (tobacco for oral use) in the EU and failed before Now it sought to challenge the prohibition again in light of scientific developments One ground of challenge was whether then Article 95 EC (now Article 114 TFEU) is the appropriate legal basis for the directive Outcome It is apparent from the order for reference that Swedish Match claims that Directive 2014/40 provides no specific and consistent explanation of the selective prohibition of tobacco products for oral use and adds that nor is such an explanation apparent from the context of that directive. This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website. Use quotation marks to search for an "exact phrase". Dismiss. Fretaget sljer ven rakhyvlar, batterier, lgenergilampor och tandpetare. 2023 Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids|Trademarks|Copyright|Privacy. Translator. This includes both bans on false, misleading, deceptive packaging, as well as required health warnings on packaging. Since these proceedings are, for the parties to the main proceedings, a step in the action pending before the national court, the decision on costs is a matter for that court. Further, according to Swedish Match, the prohibition of tobacco products for oral use cannot be justified on public health grounds since the current scientific data, not available at the time of adoption of Council Directive 92/41/EEC of 15May 1992 amending Directive 89/622 (OJ 1992 L158, p.30), demonstrates that those products are at the lower end of the risk scale in terms of adverse health effects as compared with other smokeless tobacco products. Do you want to help improving EUR-Lex ? *1 According to settled case-law, the principle of equal treatment requires that comparable situations must not be treated differently and that different situations must not be treated in the same way unless such treatment is objectively justified (judgment of 7March 2017, RPO, C390/15, EU:C:2017:174, paragraph41). This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website. Given that, if the prohibition on placing on the market tobacco products for oral use were to be lifted, the positive effects would be uncertain with respect to the health of consumers seeking to use those products as an aid to the cessation of smoking and, moreover, there would be risks to the health of other consumers, particularly young people, requiring the adoption, in accordance with the precautionary principle, of restrictive measures, Article1(c) and Article17 of Directive 2014/40 cannot be regarded as being manifestly inappropriate to the objective of ensuring a high level of public health. berprfen Sie die bersetzungen von 'state of health' in Englisch. Miguel Cardona. . . Moreover, as regards more particularly the claim by Swedish Match that the permission given to the marketing of other tobacco and related products demonstrates that the prohibition on the placing on the market of tobacco products for oral use is disproportionate, it must be recalled that an EU measure is appropriate for ensuring attainment of the objective pursued only if it genuinely reflects a concern to attain it in a consistent and systematic manner (see, to that effect, judgment of 5July 2017, Fries, C190/16, EU:C:2017:513, paragraph48). Case C-210/03. Nor can the prohibition be justified by the novelty of snus, since novel tobacco products are not prohibited by Directive 2014/40, under Article2(14) thereof, notwithstanding that there is no scientific track record and that those products may have potential adverse health effects. Such a prohibition is an unsuitable means of achieving the objective of public health protection, since it deprives consumers who want to avoid the consumption of cigarettes and other tobacco products for smoking of the option of using a less toxic product, as shown by the success of electronic cigarettes and the scientific evidence on the harmful effects of tobacco in Sweden. the United Kingdom Government, by S.Brandon, acting as Agent, and by I.Rogers QC. Open menu. The Queen on the Application of Swedish Match AB, et al. C-477/14 Pillbox 38 (UK) Ltd v Secretary of State for Health EU:C:2016:324, [2016] 4 WLR 110, CJEU. ), Reference for a preliminary ruling Approximation of laws Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products Directive 2014/40/EU Article1(c) and Article17 Prohibition on the placing on the market of tobacco products for oral use Validity), REQUEST for a preliminary ruling under Article267 TFEU from the High Court of Justice (England & Wales), Queens Bench Division (Administrative Court) (United Kingdom), made by decision of 9March 2017, received at the Court on 24March 2017, in the proceedings. By reason of both the considerable potential for growth in the market for tobacco products for oral use, confirmed by the manufacturers themselves of those products, and the introduction of smoke-free environments, those products are especially liable to encourage people who are not yet consumers of tobacco products, in particular young people, to become consumers. The tobacco industry may argue that regulations amount to a taking of property rights because they prevent the use of intellectual property such as trademarks. The consumption of such a product generally involves placing the product between the gum and upper lip and keeping it in place (see, to that effect, judgment of 14December 2004, Arnold Andr, C434/02, EU:C:2004:800, paragraph19). Moreover, leaving aside the fact that the Court has not yet had occasion to give a ruling on the validity of Article1(c) and Article17 of Directive 2014/40, Swedish Match argues that the judgment of 14December 2004, Swedish Match (C210/03, EU:C:2004:802), is not applicable to the main proceedings, since recent scientific evidence on the allegedly harmful effects of tobacco products for oral use contradicts what is said in that judgment, the rules introduced by Directive 2014/40 are significantly different from those established by Directive 2001/37 and, last, there have been extensive changes in the market for tobacco products since that judgment. v. Secretary of State for Health, Case C-210/03, Court of Justice of the European Union (2004). Measures to regulate the marketing on tobacco packages. These cases frequently involve the industry proceeding against the government. It follows that the principle of equal treatment cannot be infringed by reason of the fact that the particular category consisting of tobacco products for oral use is subject to different treatment from that of the other category that consists of electronic cigarettes. This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the validity of Article1(c) and Article17 of Directive 2014/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3April 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 (OJ 2014 L127, p.1). Subsequent regulations exceed the scope of the originating law. the European Parliament, by A.Tams andI.McDowell, acting as Agents. It operates through the following segments: Snus and Moist Snuff; Other Tobacco Products; Lights; and Other Operations. Find out more about the Agency and its work here. 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