Economics, trade and finance — Food imports — Import of foodstuffs
originating from East Jerusalem, West Bank and Golan Heights into the
European Union — Labelling of products — Whether products originating from
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories must be labelled as such —
Observance of international law — Whether foodstuffs coming from settlements
established in breach of rules of international humanitarian law — Ethical
considerations — Purchasing decisions of consumers — Misleading of
consumers
Relationship of international law and municipal law — European Union law
— Treaty on European Union, 1992 — Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union, 2007 — EU Customs Code — Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 — Consistent
interpretation of EU law — Interpreting Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 in
manner consistent with international law — Notions of “State”, “territory”
and “place of provenance” — Referral of questions by national court to Court
of Justice of European Union
Territory — Status — Occupation — Occupied Territories in which State of
Israel Occupying Power — East Jerusalem, West Bank and Golan Heights — Rules
of international humanitarian law — Israel having limited jurisdiction —
Israeli settlements in Occupied Territories — Palestinian people of West
Bank enjoying right to self-determination — Golan Heights part of territory
of Syrian Arab Republic — Import of foodstuffs into European Union —
Labelling of products — Whether products originating from Israeli
settlements in Occupied Territories must be labelled as such — Observance of
international law — Whether foodstuffs coming from settlements established
in breach of rules of international humanitarian law — Ethical
considerations — Purchasing decisions of consumers — Misleading of
consumers
War and armed conflict — International humanitarian law — Fourth Geneva
Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War,
1949 — Article 49 — Obligation of States not to “deport or transfer part of
its own civilian population into the territory it occupies” — Impact on
labelling of products originating in Occupied Territories — Status of East
Jerusalem, West Bank and Golan Heights as Occupied Territories — Whether
products originating from Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories
must be labelled as such — The law of the European Union