BACKFILL MINE CASE
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE RIGHT of companies to export waste around the European Union (EU) for storage in disused mines has been strengthened by the European Court of Justice. Judges said a Belgian environmental regulator should not have independently redesignated as waste for disposal salt residues Siomab SA wanted to bury in salt mines at Teutschenthal, Germany. Siomab's original application to the German regulator said the burial was for recovery, legal under German law, which bans waste imports for disposal. Judges said exporting country regulators should merely ...
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