Bundesminister für Gesundheit

Provisional text JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Second Chamber)15 May 2025 (*)( Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products – Directive 2014/40/EU – Article 2(40) – Concept of ‘placing on the market’ – Article 23(2) – Enforcement – Scope – Placing on the market of tobacco products the packaging of which includes non-compliant elements – Supply of tobacco products by a wholesaler to a retail outlet – Fine imposed on the managing director of a company acting as a wholesaler )In Case C‑717/23,REQUEST for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Supreme Administrative Court, Austria), made by decision of 17 November 2023, received at the Court on 27 November 2023, in the proceedings Bundesminister für Soziales, Gesundheit, Pflege und Konsumentenschutzv MM,interested party:Bezirkshauptmannschaft Grieskirchen,THE COURT (Second Chamber),composed of K. Jürimäe (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, K. Lenaerts, President of the Court, acting as Judge of the Second Chamber, M. Gavalec, Z. Csehi and F. Schalin, Judges,Advocate General: M. Szpunar,Registrar: I. Illéssy, Administrator,having regard to the written procedure and further to the hearing on 23 October 2024,after considering the observations submitted on behalf of:–        MM, by C. Schneider, Rechtsanwalt,–        the Austrian Government, by A. Posch and J. Schmoll, acting as Agents,–        the Belgian Government, by...