ECJ REJECTS GERMAN BID TO OVERTURN TOBACCO ADVERTISING DIRECTIVE

BY KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has thrown out Germany's challenge to the European Union's (EU) tobacco advertising directive, which means it will have to ban smoking-related ads from newspapers, magazines, radio and the Internet. Germany was supposed to have implemented the law by August 2005, but it has instead fought its legality, claiming Brussels had exceeded its powers by passing a law banning tobacco advertising using EU powers designed to improve trade rather than hinder it. In reply, the court pointed out that some member states had ...


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