ECJ RULING LEAVES INTERMEDIARY SCRAP METAL DEALERS UNPROTECTED
March 1st, 2012
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES
Intermediary dealers of scrap metal have been dealt a blow by a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling. It has said that intermediary dealers arranging a shipment of scrap metal have to disclose the names of waste sources to the buyer even if the suppliers wanted to remain anonymous, thereby protecting their business secrets. The case was brought in December 2009 by Germany's Interseroh Scrap and Metals Trading GmbH, a dealer specialising in steel and metal scrap who had contracted Sonderabfall-Management-Gesellschaft Rheinland-Pfalz mbH ...
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