Judgment_paragraph 34 · European Commission v Kingdom of the Netherlands (C-368/10)

34The private Netherlands label EKO is granted to products made up of at least 95% of ingredients from organic agricultural production. It is administered by a foundation established under Netherlands private law which has the objective of promoting organic agriculture such as that covered, at the time of the facts in the main proceedings, by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 of 24 June 1991 on organic production of agricultural products and indications referring thereto on agricultural products and foodstuffs (OJ 1991 L 198, p. 1), as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 392/2004 of 24 February 2004 (OJ 2004 L 65, p. 1) (‘Regulation No 2092/91’) and to combat fraud. That foundation was designated as the competent authority responsible for checking compliance with the obligations laid down by that regulation.

European Commission v Kingdom of the Netherlands (C-368/10)

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