On Friday 4 October, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled, in Case C-438/23, that in the absence of a legal designation, a Member State cannot prohibit the use of terms traditionally associated with products of animal origin to designate a product containing plant proteins.
Four entities in the vegetarian and vegan products sector have challenged a French decree designed to protect the transparency of information relating to foodstuffs. In their view, this decree, which prohibits names...