Judgment_paragraph 58 · Hungary v European Commission (C-31/13 P)

58It follows that the transitional system under Article 118s of Regulation No 1234/2007 was put in place in order to maintain, for reasons of legal certainty, the protection of wine names already protected before 1 August 2009 under national law, and therefore at EU level by virtue of Regulation No 1493/1999. The wording of Article 118s(1) of Regulation No 1234/2007 confirms that objective by providing that those wine names will ‘automatically be protected under this Regulation’. Therefore, the General Court, in paragraph 21 of the judgment under appeal, rightly concluded that the protection given to existing wine names was automatic.