ECJ – FRANCE

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has given four French agricultural organisations an extra five months to pay heavy fines totalling Euro 15.4 million imposed by the European Commission for illegally fixing beef prices and restricting imports when demand was weakened by BSE in 2001. A French abbatoir organisation has been given an additional two months to pay its Euro 480,000 fine.



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