38Moreover, it follows from a systemic reading of Article 10 of Regulation No 1924/2006 that paragraph 3 thereof establishes a derogation from the principle established in paragraph 1, so that, according to the Court’s consistent case-law, the requirement for accompanying established in paragraph 3 must be strictly interpreted (see, to that effect, judgment of 16 March 2017, AKM, C‑138/16, EU:C:2017:218, paragraph 37 and the case-law cited). Article 10(3) of that regulation thus introduces a distinction between two categories of health claims, namely, on the one hand, the specific health claim included in the lists in question in accordance with the principle laid down in Article 10(1) of that regulation and, on the other hand, the ‘general’ health claim constituting a reference to those general, non-specific benefits which must be accompanied by a health claim appearing on those same lists.
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