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7.6.2022 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 222/5 |
Order of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 9 February 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Varhoven kasatsionen sad — Bulgaria) — ‘Konservinvest’ OOD v ‘Bulkons Parvomay’ OOD
(Case C-35/21) (1)
(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice - Quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs - Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 - Designations of Origin and Geographical indications - Article 9 - Transitional national protection - Geographical indication designating an agricultural product, registered under the legislation of a Member State and protected at national level)
(2022/C 222/06)
Language of the case: Bulgarian
Referring court
Varhoven kasatsionen sad (Bulgaria)
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant:‘Konservinvest’ OOD
Defendant:‘Bulkons Parvomay’ OOD
Operative part of the order
Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs must be interpreted as precluding legislation of a Member State providing for a national system for the registration and protection of qualified geographical designations relating to agricultural products and foodstuffs falling within the scope of that regulation, which is intended to apply only to disputes relating to infringements of the rights arising from those designations between traders from that Member State which produce, in that Member State, the products for which those designations have been registered under that regulation.