BOOK PRICING – EU
May 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for a European Union book-pricing directive protecting existing national systems from being undermined by cross-border sales from Member States which have no such controls.In a formal motion, it has called upon the European Commission to propose this law, although the EU bureaucracy can ignore the appeal if it chooses; under EU treaties, the parliament cannot itself table legislation.The motion was sparked by the long running dispute over the German book pricing system, the Sammelrevers, which had been threatened ...
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