BULK OIL PACKAGES MUST CARRY PROPER LABELS – ECJ
September 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has banned selling olive oils via 'bags in a box', where consumers choose an amount of oil to be bagged and placed in a sturdy container. The court has ruled that under EU regulation 1019/2002, (of directive 2000/13/EC), olive oil must be sold in pre-packaged containers with appropriate labels, containing information on bulk and sell-by dates. A German retailer had claimed the regulation merely defined pre-packaged olive oil container rules, allowing other sales methods. But the court said: "To ...
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