ECJ RULES ON ALCOHOL LABEL LIABILITY
December 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that retailers can be held liable for selling alcohol bottles and cans misdeclaring their alcohol content - even when they are prepackaged and labelled in another EU member state. The precedent comes in a case involving supermarket giant Lidl selling a German spirit called 'Amaro alle Erbe' in Italy. National health authorities took action against the Germany-based retailer after it was revealed bottles declaring 35% alcohol content actually contained 33.91%. Lidl claimed "the distributor cannot ...
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