FRANCE ECJ
April 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening France with massive daily recurring fines - which could exceed Euro 20,000 - over its alleged failure to comply with an order of the European Court of Justice to liberalise its legal profession.Brussels says that France has yet to write Directive 98/5/EC on the establishment of lawyers into its national laws, despite an ECJ ruling last September that it should do so. The Commission may in June ask ECJ judges to levy fines until the French government complies.This could be expensive. In 2001, the Greek ...
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