FRANCE ECJ
October 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE FRENCH government is to be taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission over its refusal to allow medical laboratories established in another Member State, to open a branch or agency in France.Brussels is also asking judges to tell Paris to scrap regulations contained within its national law, (Decree No. 76-1004), preventing laboratories based elsewhere in the EU from providing cross-border services in France, unless they have a licensed operating establishment on French soil.And the ECJ will be asked to order the reform ...
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