8.1.2018
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 5/14
Order of the Court (Third Chamber) of 26 October 2017 — (request for a preliminary ruling from the Nederlandstalige rechtbank van eerste aanleg Brussel — Belgium) — Criminal proceedings against Wamo BVBA, Luc Cecile Jozef Van Mol
(Case C-356/16) (1)
((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice - Directive 2005/29/EC - Unfair commercial practices - National legislation prohibiting the advertising of procedures relating to plastic surgery or non-surgical plastic medicine))
(2018/C 005/19)
Language of the case: Dutch
Referring court
Nederlandstalige rechtbank van eerste aanleg Brussel
Parties in the criminal proceedings in the main proceedings
Wamo BVBA, Luc Cecile Jozef Van Mol
Operative part of the order
Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market and amending Council Directive 84/450/EEC, Directives 97/7/EC, 98/27/EC and 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (‘the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’) must be interpreted as not precluding a provision of national law, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which protects public health and the dignity and integrity of the professions of plastic surgeon and plastic doctor by prohibiting any natural or legal person from disseminating advertising for procedures relating to plastic surgery or non-surgical plastic medicine.
(1) OJ C 335, 12.9.2016.