EU Law: Cassis de Dijon Case

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What was the name of the plaintiff in the Cassis de Dijon-Case?

  • Rewe-Zentral AG (correct)
  • Dassonville
  • Rewe-Zentralfinanz
  • Federal Monopoly Administration for spirits

The problem of the importer of the Cassis de Dijon was

  • that the content of alcohol was too low for the German market (correct)
  • that the content of alcohol was too high for the German market
  • that the German Federal Monopoly Administration did have enough staff to de clearance request of the importer
  • not existing

In the Cassis de Dijon case the ECJ

  • introduced besides the already explicitly mentioned reasons in (now) Art. 36 TFEU new reasons to satisfy mandatory requirements relating in particular to the effective of fiscal supervision, the protection of public health, the fairness of commercial transactions and the defense of the consumer (correct)
  • denied the existence of other mandatory requirements to justify obstacles in the internal market.
  • Accepted the reason of protecting the public health as invoked by the German government
  • Considered the fixing of a maximum alcohol content of alcoholic beverages to be a measure having an equivalent effect.

In the Cassis de Dijon case the ECJ

<p>considered the Art. 37 (state monopolies) to be irrelevant, since the German provisions in question did not concern the exercise of its specific function, but applied in a general manner to the production and marketing of alcoholic beverages (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the Dassonville case the ECJ decided

<p>All trading rules enacted by member states which are capable of hindering, directly or indirectly, actually or potentially, intra-community trade are to be considered as measures having an effect equivalent to quantitative restrictions (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The Dassonville case

<p>was referred by the Tribunal de premiere instance of Brussels, (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the Dassonville case

<p>The preliminary ruling was initiated within the context of a criminal proceedings pending before a court in Belgium and in a civil action (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The Dassonville case dealt with a restriction of individuals

<p>making use of the freedom of goods (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The ECJ developed the acte claire doctrine

<p>in the Cilfit-Case (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The act claire doctrine concerns

<p>The preliminary ruling procedure (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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