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The Fédération Nationale d’Agriculture Biologique des Régions de France, (FNAB), the Syndicat Européen des Transformateurs et Distributeurs de Produits de l’Agriculture Biologique, (Setrab), and Est Distribution Biogam Sàrl, (Biogam), were seeking to overturn a European Court of First Instance ruling against their case.


The organisations claimed that the regulation “makes it possible to lure customers away from organic products,” but their claims that the junior ECJ court had erred in procedure were dismissed.


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