FRANCE ECJ – TESTS
March 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLA BID by the French government to overturn the European Union's (EU) long-debated cosmetics directive over its restrictions on animal testing has been rebuffed at the European Court of Justice (ECJ). An advocate general Leendert Geelhoed has recommended that judges throw out France's arguments that directive 2003/15/EC is illegal because it conflicts with the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade). Geelhoed argued that the directive complied with the ban. Even if France had persuaded him otherwise, the ECJ ...
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