CADMIUM CASE
July 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTOUGH restrictions applied by the Austrian and Swedish governments on the use of cadmium in their territories are likely to be scrapped, after the European Court of Justice ruled that amendments to EU legislation permitting them to retain these rules were actually illegal. The case was brought by the Netherlands against the European Commission; it had given Austria and Sweden permission to maintain their restrictions that had been in place before they joined the EU in 1995. The Hague claimed that Brussels had exceeded its powers in doing so, and ...
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