Judgment_paragraph 2 · Moritz Hagenmeyer and Andreas Hahn v European Commission (T-17/12)

2Under Article 14(1)(a) and Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods (OJ 2006 L 404, p. 9), most recently amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 116/2010 of 9 February 2010 (OJ 2010 L 37, p. 16) (‘Regulation No 1924/2006’), the applicants on 11 February 2008 applied to the competent German authority, the Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (Federal German Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety, ‘the Bundesamt’), for authorisation of the following reduction of disease risk claim: ‘Regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the development of dehydration and of concomitant decrease of performance’ (‘the claim at issue’). The application extended to any other claim to which consumers would in all likelihood ascribe the same meaning.