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German Court Orders Change to Nutrition Labelling on Nutella Due to its Misleading Nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ignacio Carreño
Ignacio Carreño*
Affiliation:
FratiniVergano – European Lawyers, Brussels
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 91 - 93
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References

1 Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt, Urteil v. 20.10.2011 – Az.: 6 U 40/11. The judgment is available on the Internet at <http://www.lareda.hessenrecht.hessen.de> (last accessed on 11 December 2011).

2 A picture of the label is available on the Internet at <http://www.vzbv.de/cps/rde/xbcr/vzbv/Nutella-Etikett_Foto_PM_17.11.2011.pdf> (last accessed on 11 December 2011).

3 Verordnung über nährwertbezogene Angaben bei Lebensmitteln und die Nährwertkennzeichnung von Lebensmitteln (Nährwert-Kennzeichnungsverordnung – NKV) of 25.11.1994, BGBl. I S. 3526, last amended on 1 October 2009 (BGBl. I S. 3221).

4 See Headnote (Leitsatz) of the judgment.

5 At paragraph 9 of the judgment.

6 At paragraph 11 of the judgment.

7 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 304/18.

8 At paragraph 13 of the judgment.

9 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 17 November 2011, available on the Internet at <http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/naehrwertangaben-gericht-nutella-etikett-fuehrt-in-die-irre-11531775.html> (last accessed on 11 December 2011).

10 At paragraph 16 of the judgment.

11 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 304/18.

12 Article 2(2) of Council Directive 90/496/EEC on nutrition labelling, OJ 1990 L 276/40.