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Case C-207/14: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 24 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Vrhovno sodišče (Slovenia)) — Hotel Sava Rogaška, Gostinstvo, turizem in storitve, d.o.o. v Republika Slovenija (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Approximation of laws — Natural mineral water — Directive 2009/54/EC — Article 8(2) — Annex I — Prohibition on marketing ‘natural mineral water from one and the same spring’ under more than one trade description — Meaning)

IO C 279, 24.8.2015, p. 15–15 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

24.8.2015   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 279/15


Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 24 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Vrhovno sodišče (Slovenia)) — Hotel Sava Rogaška, Gostinstvo, turizem in storitve, d.o.o. v Republika Slovenija

(Case C-207/14) (1)

((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Approximation of laws - Natural mineral water - Directive 2009/54/EC - Article 8(2) - Annex I - Prohibition on marketing ‘natural mineral water from one and the same spring’ under more than one trade description - Meaning))

(2015/C 279/17)

Language of the case: Slovenian

Referring court

Vrhovno sodišče

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Hotel Sava Rogaška, gostinstvo, turizem in storitve, d.o.o.

Defendant: Republika Slovenija

Operative part of the judgment

The notion of ‘natural mineral water from one and the same spring’ contained in Article 8(2) of Directive 2009/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 on the exploitation and marketing of natural mineral waters must be interpreted as referring to a natural mineral water that is drawn from one or more natural or bore exits, and which originates in one and the same underground water table or in one and the same underground deposit, where, at all those natural or bore exits, that water has identical characteristics, pursuant to the criteria specified in Annex I to Directive 2009/54, which remain stable within the limits of natural fluctuation.


(1)  OJ C 202, 30.6.2014.


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