FRANCE ECJ
January 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening the French government with massive daily recurring fines if it continues to ignore a European Court of Justice ruling that it abandons its tax discrimination against Virginia-type tobacco, most of which is imported. Paris levies lower duties on dark tobacco that is widely grown in France and the European Court of Justice last February (2002) ruled that this constituted wilful tax discrimination. The court ruled this broke directives 95/59/EC and 92/79/EC and Article 90 of the Treaty of European Union, which ...
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