ECJ COMPOUND FEEDINGSTUFFS CASE – EXCESS INFORMATION CLAIM
January 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has struck down a European Union (EU) directive that requires manufacturers of compound animal feedingstuffs to indicate, at a customer's request, its exact composition. In five linked cases, hearing three complaints against directive 2002/2 from 10 feed companies, (six from the UK), judges ruled this part of the law "invalid in the light of the principle of proportionality". They continued: "The obligation to provide customers with the exact indication of the ingredients of a feedingstuff ...
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