ANIMAL TESTS – ECJ
May 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLFRANCE has lost a legal challenge to the European Union's (EU) ban on cosmetics animal testing, being undone by their own legal ambition. France had claimed directive 2003/15/EC - which tells member states to ban progressively testing and the marketing of associated cosmetic products - saying the restriction conflicts with World Trade Organisation rules. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) however rejected the case on an unrelated procedural technicality and ordered France, and its vast cosmetic industry, to comply with the ban. Paris had ...
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