Odbor kompatibility s právem ES
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Číslo (Kód CELEX):
Number (CELEX Code):		61974J0012
Název:
Title: 		JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF 20 FEBRUARY 1975. COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES V THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. INDIRECT APPELLATION OF ORIGIN. CASE 12-74.
Publikace:
Publication:		REPORTS OF CASES 1975 PAGES 0181 - 0200
Předmět (klíčová slova):
Keywords		FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS;QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS;MEASURES HAVING EQUIVALENT EFFECT;INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY;AGRICULTURE;WINE;
Související předpisy:
Corresponding acts:		157E030;370R0816
Odkaz na souvisejicí judikáty:
Corresponding Judgements:
Plný text:
Fulltext:		Ne

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Shrnutí (Summary of the Judgment):
1. IN ORDER TO BE PROTECTED BY LAW, REGISTERED DESIGNATIONS OF ORIGIN AND INDICATIONS OF ORIGIN MUST DESCRIBE A PRODUCT COMING FROM A SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHICAL AREA AND MUST ENSURE NOT ONLY THAT THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS CONCERNED ARE SAFEGUARDED AGAINST UNFAIR COMPETITION, BUT ALSO THAT CONSUMERS ARE PROTECTED AGAINST INFORMATION WHICH MAY MISLEAD THEM. THESE APPELLATIONS ONLY FULFIL THEIR SPECIFIC PURPOSE IF THE PRODUCT WHICH THEY DESCRIBE DOES IN FACT POSSESS QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS WHICH ARE DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT ORIGINATED IN A SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHICAL AREA AND THEY MUST, PARTICULARLY IN THE CASE OF INDICATIONS OF ORIGIN, CONFER ON THE PRODUCT A SPECIFIC QUALITY AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCH A NATURE AS TO DISTINGUISH IT FROM ALL OTHER PRODUCTS. AN AREA OF ORIGIN WHICH IS DEFINED ON THE BASIS EITHER OF THE EXTENT OF NATIONAL TERRITORY OR A LINGUISTIC CRITERION CANNOT CONSTITUTE A GEOGRAPHICAL AREA WITHIN THE MEANING REFERRED TO ABOVE, CAPABLE OF JUSTIFYING AN INDICATION OF ORIGIN, PARTICULAR
LY AS THE PRODUCTS IN QUESTION MAY BE PRODUCED FROM GRAPES OF INDETERMINATE ORIGIN.

2. ALTHOUGH THE TREATY DOES NOT RESTRICT THE POWER TO EACH MEMBER STATE TO LEGISLATE IN MATTERS OF INDICATIONS OF ORIGIN, THEY ARE NEVERTHELESS PROHIBITED BY THE SECOND SENTENCE OF ARTICLE 36 FROM INTRODUCING NEW MEASURES OF AN ARBITRARY AND UNJUSTIFIED NATURE WHOSE EFFECTS ARE, FOR THIS REASON, EQUIVALENT TO QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS. THIS IS PRECISELY THE CASE WHERE A NATIONAL LEGISLATURE GRANTS THE PROTECTION PROVIDED FOR INDICATIONS OF ORIGIN TO APPELLATIONS WHICH, AT THE TIME WHEN SUCH PROTECTION IS GRANTED, ARE MERELY GENERIC IN NATURE.

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