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Document 62025CN0758

Case C-758/25, Molkerei Alois Müller: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 25 November 2025 – Molkerei Alois Müller GmbH & Co. KG v Wettbewerbszentrale e. V.

OJ C, C/2026/1332, 16.3.2026, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/1332/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/1332/oj

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C/2026/1332

16.3.2026

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 25 November 2025 – Molkerei Alois Müller GmbH & Co. KG v Wettbewerbszentrale e. V.

(Case C-758/25, Molkerei Alois Müller)

(C/2026/1332)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Bundesgerichtshof

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Molkerei Alois Müller GmbH & Co. KG

Defendent: Wettbewerbszentrale e. V.

Questions referred

1.

Does Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 (1), read in conjunction with its Annex, allow a permitted nutrition claim – particularly a claim relating to a nutrient referred to in the first sentence, point (b), of Article 30(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 (2) on the provision of food information to consumers – to be complemented by a message that, although not listed in the Annex to Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, is nevertheless objectively correct if, from the perspective of the consumer, it constitutes a specific clarification of the nutrition claim?

If the first question referred is answered in the affirmative:

2.

Does the content of a message not listed in the Annex to Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 that provides specific clarification of a permitted nutrition claim have to meet the conditions set down in the Annex for the use of nutrition claims?


(1)  Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods (OJ 2006 L 404, p. 9).

(2)  Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 (OJ 2011 L 304, p. 18).


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