BAT ECJ CASE
September 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has been censured by the European Court of Justice for falsely denying the existence of minutes of a high-level Cancer Experts Committee, when they were requested by British American Tobacco (Investments) Ltd. Only when BAT had launched legal action at the ECJ and a member of the committee gave written evidence that such minutes did exist, did the Commission supply the documents and some other relevant material. Ruling that Brussels had committed "particularly regrettable conduct in this matter," the court noted: "It was ...
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