(Reference for a preliminary ruling– Article99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice– Quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs– Regulation (EU) No1151/2012

61Since these proceedings are, for the parties to the main proceedings, a step in the action pending before the national court, the decision on costs is a matter for that court. Costs incurred in submitting observations to the Court, other than the costs of those parties, are not recoverable.

On those grounds, the Court (Tenth Chamber) hereby rules:

Regulation (EU) No1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21November 2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs must be interpreted as precluding legislation of a Member State providing for a national system for the registration and protection of qualified geographical designations relating to agricultural products and foodstuffs falling within the scope of that regulation, which is intended to apply only to disputes relating to infringements of the rights arising from those designations between traders from that Member State which produce, in that Member State, the products for which those designations have been registered under that regulation.

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*Language of the case: Bulgarian.