The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Czech legislation requiring businesses to notify authorities 24 hours before receiving food supplements from other EU Member States is incompatible with EU law.
The Court found that this blanket pre-notification requirement is not strictly necessary for conducting official food controls under Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and can only be justified in exceptional cases involving specific risks. According to the ruling, existing EU systems for risk assessment, information exchange, and official controls already provide adequate and less restrictive means of ensuring food safety.
The decision reinforces the principle of free movement of goods within the European Union, prevents disproportionate trade barriers between Member States, and limits the ability of national authorities to impose broad advance reporting requirements on intra-EU food supplement shipments.
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